Prologue in Malayalam
പ്രസ്താവന (prasthaavana) is the opening section of a text or a play, a preface, a foreword or a prologue, and in everyday use it is also a statement or an opening remark.
Most common translation
Statement, beginning, preface, foreword, a prologue (drama), an introductory speech.
പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ പ്രസ്താവന ഞാൻ ആദ്യം വായിച്ചു.
pusthakathinte prasthaavana njaan aadyam vaayichu.
I read the preface of the book first.
All Malayalam words for “prologue”
- പ്രസ്താവന (prasthaavana) — Statement, beginning, preface, foreword, a prologue (drama), an introductory speech.
- സൂത്രധാരന് (soothradhaaran) — Speaker of the prologue of a play or drama.
സൂത്രധാരന് (soothradhaaran) is not the prologue itself but the man who speaks it, the narrator figure who opens a classical play.
Common questions
How do you say prologue in Malayalam?
പ്രസ്താവന (prasthaavana).
What is the speaker of the prologue called?
സൂത്രധാരന് (soothradhaaran), the one who delivers it on stage.