Pure in Malayalam

When pure means unmixed, Malayalam says കലര്‍പ്പില്ലാത്ത (kalarppillatha), genuine and unadulterated. This is what you want for pure honey, pure gold or pure coconut oil. Sacred purity calls for a different word.

Most common translation

കലര്‍പ്പില്ലാത്ത (kalarppillatha)

Genuine, pure, unadulterated.

കടയിൽ കലര്‍പ്പില്ലാത്ത തേൻ കിട്ടി.

kadayil kalarppillatha then kitti.

Pure honey was available at the shop.

All Malayalam words for “pure”

കലര്‍പ്പില്ലാത്ത (kalarppillatha) is about adulteration and വിശുദ്ധം (vishuddham) about holiness, while അമല (amala), പാവന (pavana) and സ്വച്ഛ (swacha) are literary adjectives for clear, sacred and bright. അര്‍ജ്ജുന (arjjuna) is white and silvery and അന്തണന്‍ (anthanan) is a person, a Brahmin.

Common questions

How do you say pure in Malayalam?

For unmixed and genuine, കലര്‍പ്പില്ലാത്ത (kalarppillatha); for holy and sinless, വിശുദ്ധം (vishuddham).

Which word would a hymn use?

പാവന (pavana) or അമല (amala), both of which belong to devotional and literary registers.