Medicinal in Malayalam
There is no single Malayalam adjective for medicinal among these options. What Malayalam does is put the noun ഔഷധം (oushadham), medicine, in front of the thing described, as in ഔഷധച്ചെടി (oushadhachedi), a medicinal herb. Several named herbs appear in the list as well.
Most common translation
Medicine, medicinal herb, plants.
ഈ ചെടി നല്ല ഒരു ഔഷധം ആണ്.
ee chedi nalla oru oushadham aanu.
This plant is a good medicinal herb.
All Malayalam words for “medicinal”
- ഔഷധം (oushadham) — Medicine, medicinal herb, plants.
- അത്യുഗ്രഗന്ധം (athyugragandham) — Pungent smell, common carraway (medicinal herb.).
- അമുക്കിരം (amukkiram) — Kind of Indian medicinal herb.
- അമൃത് (amruthu) — Ambrosia, a medicinal herb.
- അരിഷ്ടം (arishtam) — Medicinal liquor prepared by decocting medicinal herbs with alcohol.
- ഉലുവ (uluva) — A medicinal herb, its seed fenugreek (Trigonella foenum).
- ഔഷധച്ചെടി (oushadhachedi) — Medicinal herb.
- കടലാടി (kadaladi) — A medicinal plant.
- കഷായം (kashayam) — Medicinal decoction (Ayurveda), juice or gum of trees, red colour.
- തുമ്പ (thumba) — A medicinal plant (Leuca Indica).
- ത്രിഫല (thrifala) — The three medicinal fruits gooseberry, terminalia and ink-nut.
- നവര (navara) — A kind of medicinal paddy, used in massaging.
- പച്ചില (pachila) — Green leaf, a medicinal drug (Folia Malabathy).
- പതിമുഖം (pathimugam) — Husband's face, a deliberately hidden danger, a medicinal herb.
- പാവകം (pavakam) — Common name for various medicinal plants.
- വാശി (vaashi) — Obstinacy, measure, excess, surplus, cure, fire, the medicinal plant, Kotuveli.
oushadham and oushadhachedi cover medicine and medicinal herb, while uluva, amukkiram and amruthu are particular herbs rather than the adjective.
Common questions
What is medicinal in Malayalam?
There is no one-word adjective here; use ഔഷധം (oushadham) in a compound, as in ഔഷധച്ചെടി (oushadhachedi), medicinal herb.
What is a medicinal preparation with alcohol called?
അരിഷ്ടം (arishtam), a decoction of herbs fermented with alcohol.