Mirror in Malayalam
A mirror is കണ്ണാടി (kannaadi), literally the eye glass, and in many households the same word does duty for spectacles. Say kan-naa-di, holding the doubled n for a moment.
Most common translation
Mirror, a looking glass, a glass surface that reflects.
കണ്ണാടിയിൽ നോക്കി മുടി ചീകി.
kannaadiyil nokki mudi cheeki.
She looked in the mirror and combed her hair.
All Malayalam words for “mirror”
- കണ്ണാടി (kannaadi) — Mirror, a looking glass, a glass surface that reflects.
- ദര്ശനം (darshanam) — View, divine sight, eye, mirror, philosophy.
- പ്രകാശം (prakasham) — Light, clearness, lustre, commentary, development, expansion, chapter, mirror, knowledge, what a character in a play says loudly for everyone to hear (not as an 'aside').
- ബിംബം (bimbam) — Image, idol, the disc of the sun or the moon, mirror, reflected image, a globular object.
kannaadi is the object you look into, ബിംബം (bimbam) is the reflected image in it, and ദര്ശനം (darshanam) and പ്രകാശം (prakasham) touch the mirror sense only in old poetic usage.
Common questions
How do you say mirror in Malayalam?
കണ്ണാടി (kannaadi).
Does kannaadi also mean glasses?
Yes, in everyday speech it often means spectacles, so the situation tells you which is meant.