Plate in Malayalam
The dinner plate is പ്ലേറ്റ് (plettu) in everyday Kerala speech, borrowed straight from English and inflected like any Malayalam noun. A traditional metal plate is തളിക (thalika), the shallow dish still brought out at feasts and in temples.
Most common translation
Plate. The flat dish food is served on; a traditional plate is thalika.
പ്ലേറ്റ് കഴുകി വെച്ചു.
plettu kazhuki vechu.
Washed and kept the plate.
All Malayalam words for “plate”
- പ്ലേറ്റ് (plettu) — Plate. The flat dish food is served on; a traditional plate is thalika.
- കപ്പ് (kapp) — Cup, plate.
- താലം (thaalam) — Palmyra (fruit), plate, platter, beating time, bolt, palm of the hand.
- ഇല (ila) — Leaf. The leaf of a plant or tree; also a banana leaf used as a plate.
- തട്ടം (thattam) — Platter or plate, veil (worn by Muslim women), long cloth tied round the waist, pond, lake.
- തളിക (thalika) — Platter, shallow plate made of metal.
- മുക്കുക (mukkuka) — Dip in water, immerse, plunge, plate a metal object with gold, baptize.
thattam and thaalam drift towards platters and trays and carry several other senses besides, and ila is the banana leaf food is served on rather than a plate proper.
Common questions
How do you say plate in Malayalam?
പ്ലേറ്റ് (plettu) for an ordinary plate, തളിക (thalika) for a traditional metal one.
What do you call the banana leaf used instead of a plate?
ഇല (ila), the leaf laid out for a meal.