Painting in Malayalam
A painting as an object is ചിത്രം (chithram), the same word Malayalam uses for a drawing or a photograph. For painting as an art, കല (kala) is the usual choice.
Most common translation
Picture, a drawing, painting or photograph of something.
ഭിത്തിയിൽ ഒരു ചിത്രം തൂക്കി.
bhitthiyil oru chithram thookki.
A picture was hung on the wall.
All Malayalam words for “painting”
- ചിത്രം (chithram) — Picture, a drawing, painting or photograph of something.
- കല (kala) — Art, painting, music, dance and other creative work; also a skill done beautifully.
- വിചിത്രം (vichithram) — Marvel, painting, beauty, adornment.
- ആലേഖ്യം (aalekhyam) — Picture, writing, painting.
- രഞ്ജനം (ranjanam) — Bringing together, matching of minds, reconciliation, painting, paint, dye.
- ലേഖ (lega) — Line, writing, crescent, painting, image, form, mark, script.
- കലകൾ (kalakal) — Arts, the fine arts such as music, dance and painting; also the arts as a field of study.
- കലാകാരന്മാർ (kalaakaaranmaar) — Artists. People who create art such as painting, music, dance or acting.
- ചിത്രകല (chithrakala) — The art of painting pictures.
- ബ്രഷ് (brush) — Brush, a tool with bristles used for cleaning, painting or brushing the teeth.
- വര്ത്തിക (varthika) — Painting brush, paint, colour, lamp-wick.
aalekhyam is a literary word for a picture, vichithram leans on marvel and beauty, ranjanam on dye and colouring, and lega on line and script.
Common questions
How do you say painting in Malayalam?
ചിത്രം (chithram) for the picture itself, കല (kala) for the art of painting.
Which word covers the fine arts?
കലകൾ (kalakal), the arts in the plural.