News in Malayalam
News is വാര്ത്ത (vaartha) in Malayalam, the word on television bulletins and in print. Spoken Malayalam also uses വര്ത്തമാനം (varthamaanam), which carries a slightly older flavour.
Most common translation
News, report, hearsay, trade, daily, activity.
രാവിലെ പത്രത്തിൽ ആ വാർത്ത വായിച്ചു.
raavile pathrathil aa vaartha vaayichu.
I read that news in the newspaper in the morning.
All Malayalam words for “news”
- വാര്ത്ത (vaartha) — News, report, hearsay, trade, daily, activity.
- വര്ത്തമാനം (varthamaanam) — News, daily news, the present, talk.
- വൃത്താന്തം (vrithaantham) — News, tidings.
- വൃത്തം (vritham) — Circle, news, history, gait, profession, occupation, custom, duty, rule, mode of poetic composition, (poet.) metre.
- ശ്രുതി (shruthi) — Hearing, news, rumour, sound, ear, scripture, (mus.) background tune, increasing the tone.
- സമാചാരം (samaachaaram) — Good practice or performance, practice, news, custom.
- അശുഭ വാര്ത്ത (ashubha vartha) — Bad news, ill news.
- ഉറവിടങ്ങൾ (uravidangal) — Sources, the places or people something comes from; the origins of water, news or information.
- കവറേജ് (kavarej) — Coverage; the extent to which something is reported, included or reached, as of news, insurance or a mobile network; the English word is used in Malayalam.
- ചാനൽ (chaanal) — Channel, a television or radio station; also a route or passage through which water or news flows.
- പത്രം (pathram) — Leaf, wing, feather, news paper, article, line, sheet, document, line made with sandalwood paste.
- പത്രലേഖകന് (pathralegakan) — Journalist, news reporter, editor.
- മാധ്യമം (maadhyamam) — Media, the newspapers, television and other channels that carry news; the plural is maadhyamangal.
- റിപ്പോർട്ടുകൾ (rippottukal) — Reports; written or spoken accounts of facts, news items, official statements of findings.
- വാര്ത്താമാധ്യമം (vaarthaamaadhyamam) — News medium (like news paper, radio, television, etc.).
- വാര്ത്താലേഖകന് (vaarthaalegakan) — News reporter, correspondent.
- ശുഭവാര്ത്ത (shubhavaartha) — Good news, welcome news.
- സുവിശേഷം (suvishesham) — Good news, gospel.
വാര്ത്ത (vaartha) is news as reported, വര്ത്തമാനം (varthamaanam) daily news and talk, വൃത്താന്തം (vrithaantham) tidings in formal style, and അശുഭ വാര്ത്ത (ashubha vartha) specifically bad news.
Common questions
How do you say news in Malayalam?
Say വാര്ത്ത (vaartha).
How do you say bad news?
That is അശുഭ വാര്ത്ത (ashubha vartha).