Pipe in Malayalam
A pipe or tube is നാളം (naalam). Say naa-lam. The word covers a hollow stem, a sluice and a pipe carrying water.
Most common translation
Pipe, tube, sluice, stem (hollow).
വെള്ളം ഒരു നാളം വഴി ഒഴുകി.
vellam oru naalam vazhi ozhuki.
The water flowed through a pipe.
All Malayalam words for “pipe”
- നാളം (naalam) — Pipe, tube, sluice, stem (hollow).
- ചാമ്പുക (chaambuka) — Doze, send water through a hose pipe.
In everyday Kerala speech a water pipe is more often named with a word for a hollow tube that this entry does not list, so naalam reads as the dictionary word; ചാമ്പുക (chaambuka) is a verb, to send water through a hose.
Common questions
How do you say pipe in Malayalam?
Pipe is നാളം (naalam).
Does naalam mean a smoking pipe?
No. It is the hollow tube sense only, and a smoking pipe goes by the borrowed English word.