Pushing in Malayalam
The act of pushing is തള്ളല് (thallal), the verbal noun off the verb for shove, and it is what you call the jostling at a bus door. The final l here is the retroflex one written with the chillu letter. Figuratively the same noun means boasting or swagger.
Pushing, thrusting, thrust, arrogance, rejection.
ബസ്സിൽ നല്ല തള്ളല് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു.
bassil nalla thallal undaayirunnu
There was a lot of pushing in the bus.
All Malayalam words for “pushing”
- തള്ളല് (thallal) — Pushing, thrusting, thrust, arrogance, rejection.
- ഉന്തല് (unthal) — Pushing, projection, jutting out.
ഉന്തല് (unthal) is pushing in the sense of jutting out or projecting, so it suits a ledge or a bulge rather than a crowd shoving at a gate.
Common questions
How do you say pushing in Malayalam?
The noun is തള്ളല് (thallal), as in the pushing at a counter or a doorway.
Why does thallal also mean arrogance?
Malayalam extends the shoving image to a person who throws their weight about, so the same noun can mean bluster or rejection depending on context.