Play in Malayalam
കളിക്കുക (kalikkuka) is to play, used of children in the yard and of a team on the field alike. For a play in the theatre sense Malayalam switches to നാടകം (naadakam), a staged work with music and dance in it.
Most common translation
Play, amuse, stage plays, etc.
അവൻ ദിവസവും ഫുട്ബോൾ കളിക്കുന്നു.
avan divasavum phutbol kalikkunnu.
He plays football every day.
All Malayalam words for “play”
- കളിക്കുക (kalikkuka) — Play, amuse, stage plays, etc.
- കളിയടുക (kaliyaduka) — Play, rejoice, sport, shine, gleam.
- കളിയാട്ടം (kaliyattam) — Play, fun, amusement, a temple ritual accompanied by songs.
- നാടകം (naadakam) — Play, opera, a literary work that gives scope for music, acting and dancing.
- വിലാസം (vilaasam) — Play, sport, dalliance, coquetry, blandishment, address.
- വിളയാട്ടം (vilayaattam) — Play, rambling, frolic activity.
- കളി (kali) — Game, play, a match or sport.
- കളിക്കുന്നു (kalikkunnu) — Playing, taking part in a game; the continuous form of kalikkuka, to play.
- കേളി (keli) — Hearing, fame, play, pastime.
- അനുഗാനം (anuganam) — Singing in concert, play black singing.
- കഥാപാത്രങ്ങൾ (kathaapaathrangal) — Characters; the persons in a story, film or play; letters of an alphabet are called aksharangal.
- കളിക്കാർ (kalikkaar) — Players, the people who play a game or sport; one player is kalikkaaran.
- കളിവട്ടം (kalivattam) — Method of play and play things used, joke, fun.
- കൊത്തുക (kothuka) — Peck, bite, cut, play with pebbles, drink (toddy), engrave (on stone, metal things etc.)carve.
- ടീമുകൾ (teemukal) — Teams, groups that play or work together; the plural of teem.
- നാടകീയമായ (naadakeeyamaaya) — Dramatic, striking and sudden, like something in a play.
- നായകന് (naayakan) — Leader, husband, hero (main character in a play).
- നീതികേട് (neethikedu) — Injustice, foul play.
- പതാക (pathaaka) — Flag, banner, flag post, signal, a sign of the hand, a part of a drama or play, a sub-plot that extends all through the play.
- പാർക്ക് (park) — Park, a public garden, an open place for walking and play.
- പിരട്ടുക (pirattuka) — Cheat, play tricks on, deceive, rub or apply oil.
- പ്രകരണി (prakarani) — Play or farce.
- പ്രകാശം (prakasham) — Light, clearness, lustre, commentary, development, expansion, chapter, mirror, knowledge, what a character in a play says loudly for everyone to hear (not as an 'aside').
- ബാൻഡ് (baand) — Band, a group of musicians who play together; also a strip or ribbon tied round something.
- മേളം (melam) — Play of musical instruments, joy, luxury.
- ലീഗ് (leeg) — League, a set of teams that play each other, an association of members.
- വദിക്കുക (vadikkuka) — Say, speak, play a musical instrument.
- വായിക്കുക (vaayikkuka) — Read, learn, study, play on a musical instrument.
- വിദൂഷകന് (vidooshakan) — Clown or buffoon in a play, harlequin.
- സംവിധാനം ചെയ്തു (samvidhaanam cheythu) — Directed, guided the making of a film or play; told someone what to do is nirdeshichu.
- സംവിധായകൻ (samvidhaayakan) — Director, the person who directs a film or a play.
- സൂത്രധാരന് (soothradhaaran) — Speaker of the prologue of a play or drama.
vilayaattam and kaliyattam are the fun or frolic itself rather than the act of playing, kali is the game, and vilaasam belongs to dalliance and coquetry.
Common questions
How do you say play in Malayalam?
കളിക്കുക (kalikkuka) for the verb, കളി (kali) for a game, and നാടകം (naadakam) for a stage play.
Which word do you use for a play at the theatre?
നാടകം (naadakam), the word for drama.