Quarrelsome in Malayalam
For a quarrelsome man Malayalam offers പോരുകാരന് (porukaran), a fighter or scrapper, someone forever spoiling for a row. It is a noun with the masculine agent ending, pronounced with a clear long aa in the third beat. The word also stretches to rival, aggressor and warmonger.
Fighter, soldier, quarrelsome person, rival, competitor, warmonger, aggressor.
അവൻ ഒരു പോരുകാരന് ആയി അറിയപ്പെടുന്നു.
avan oru porukaran aayi ariyappedunnu.
He is known as a quarrelsome man.
All Malayalam words for “quarrelsome”
- പോരുകാരന് (porukaran) — Fighter, soldier, quarrelsome person, rival, competitor, warmonger, aggressor.
- പിശക് (pishaku) — Mistake, error, fault, flaw, obstruction; (idm.) a quarrelsome person.
There is no plain adjective quarrelsome in this set: porukaran is a noun for the person, and പിശക് (pishaku) means a mistake or flaw and only reaches a quarrelsome person as an idiom.
Common questions
How do you say quarrelsome in Malayalam?
Malayalam names the person instead of using an adjective: പോരുകാരന് (porukaran), a quarrelsome or combative man.
Can porukaran mean a soldier?
Yes, its older sense is fighter or soldier, and only context tells you whether a battlefield or a family argument is meant.