Material in Malayalam
Material as the stuff something is made from appears here as അസംസ്കൃത വസ്തു (asamskrutha vasthu), raw material, the phrase used in industry and school economics. Its second half is the general word for a thing or substance, and much of the time Malayalis simply name the material, as with തടി (thadi) for wood or ലോഹം (loham) for metal.
അസംസ്കൃത വസ്തു (asamskrutha vasthu)
Raw material.
ഫാക്ടറിയിൽ അസംസ്കൃത വസ്തു തീർന്നു പോയി.
phaaktariyil asamskrutha vasthu theernnu poyi.
The raw material ran out at the factory.
All Malayalam words for “material”
- അസംസ്കൃത വസ്തു (asamskrutha vasthu) — Raw material.
- ഗ്ലാസ് (glas) — Glass. A drinking glass or tumbler; the material glass is also called glas.
- തടി (thadi) — Wood; timber, the hard material got from trees; firewood is virak and a forest is kaadu.
- തുണി (thuni) — Cloth. Woven fabric; a piece of material, also clothes in general.
- ത്രിശൂലം (thrishoolam) — Trident; spiritual, material and bodily grief.
- ഭൗതികത (bhouthikatha) — Materiality, material state.
- ഭൗതികവിശ്വാസം (bhouthikavishwaasam) — Corporeality, belief in only material things or in materialism.
- ലോഹം (loham) — Metal, a hard shiny material such as iron, copper or gold.
asamskrutha-vasthu is a technical compound, while ഭൗതികത (bhouthikatha) and ഭൗതികവിശ്വാസം (bhouthikavishwaasam) belong to philosophy, where material means physical as opposed to spiritual.
Common questions
How do you say material in Malayalam?
Raw material is അസംസ്കൃത വസ്തു (asamskrutha vasthu), and otherwise the specific material is named, as with ലോഹം (loham) for metal.
Is there a word here for material as cloth?
No, for fabric you would name the cloth itself rather than use അസംസ്കൃത വസ്തു (asamskrutha vasthu).