Prison in Malayalam
ജയിൽ (jayil) is prison, the English jail written in Malayalam letters, and it is what news reports and ordinary speech both use. It takes the usual case endings, so going to jail and coming out of jail are built on this one word.
Prison; the jail where people convicted of crimes are kept.
പോലീസ് കള്ളനെ ജയിലിൽ അടച്ചു.
polees kallane jayilil adachu.
The police put the thief in prison.
All Malayalam words for “prison”
- ജയിൽ (jayil) — Prison; the jail where people convicted of crimes are kept.
- തുറുങ്ക് (thurunk) — Jail, goal, prison.
- പാറാവ് (paaraav) — Guard duty, vigil, place of confinement, prison.
- കോശം (kosham) — Cell; the smallest living unit of a body in biology; the word cell is also used for a battery cell and for a prison room.
- കോശങ്ങൾ (koshangal) — Cells; the tiny units that living bodies are made of; a battery cell is a sell and a prison cell is a thadavara muri.
തുറുങ്ക് (thurunk) and പാറാവ് (paaraav) are older words, the first literary and the second really about guard duty and confinement. കോശം (kosham) and കോശങ്ങൾ (koshangal) are biological cells, in the list only because English uses cell for both.
Common questions
How do you say prison in Malayalam?
ജയിൽ (jayil).
What about a prison cell?
Not കോശം (kosham), which is a cell in biology. A cell in a jail takes a compound built on the word for confinement.