Recollection in Malayalam
ഓര്മ്മ (ormma) is memory and recollection in daily Malayalam, used for everything from a childhood scene to the fact that you still know someone's phone number. It is a short, soft word of three beats with the doubled consonant held in the middle. Writers reach for it constantly because it carries no formality at all.
Memory, recollection, remembrance.
മുത്തശ്ശന്റെ ഓര്മ്മ ഇപ്പോഴും നല്ലതാണ്.
muthashante ormma ippozhum nallathaanu.
Grandfather's memory is still good.
All Malayalam words for “recollection”
- ഓര്മ്മ (ormma) — Memory, recollection, remembrance.
- സ്മൃതി (smrithi) — Recollection, memory, meditation, code of ethical laws, tradition.
സ്മൃതി (smrithi) means the same thing in Sanskritic register, but it is also the name of a class of Hindu legal and ethical texts, so in a religious context readers may take it that way first.
Common questions
How do you say recollection in Malayalam?
ഓര്മ്മ (ormma) is the word, the same noun used for memory in general.
When would a writer choose സ്മൃതി (smrithi) instead?
In formal or devotional prose, or where the ring of Sanskrit is wanted; in speech it would sound stiff.