Moonlight in Malayalam
Moonlight is നിലാവ് (nilav), a word that fills Malayalam songs. The fuller form നിലാവെട്ടം (nilavettam) says the same thing with light spelled out. The moon's rays, more formally, are ചന്ദ്രകിരണം (chandrakiranam).
Most common translation
Moonlight.
ഇന്നലെ നല്ല നിലാവ് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു.
innale nalla nilav undaayirunnu.
There was bright moonlight yesterday.
All Malayalam words for “moonlight”
- നിലാവ് (nilav) — Moonlight.
- അമൃത തരംഗിണി (amrutha tharamgini) — Moonlight.
- നിലാവെട്ടം (nilavettam) — Moonlight, moonshine.
- ചന്ദ്രകിരണം (chandrakiranam) — Moon's rays, moonlight.
- ചന്ദ്രൻ (chandran) — Moon. The moon in the night sky; moonlight is nilaavu.
- നാട്ടുവെളിച്ചം (nattuvelicham) — Starlight in a night without moonlight, stellar light, the only light from stars.
nilav and nilavettam are the common words, chandrakiranam is formal, amrutha tharamgini poetic, and nattuvelicham is starlight on a moonless night.
Common questions
What is moonlight in Malayalam?
നിലാവ് (nilav) is the word for moonlight.
What is starlight without the moon called?
നാട്ടുവെളിച്ചം (nattuvelicham), the light of the stars alone.