Redemption in Malayalam
സമുദ്ധരണം (samuddharanam) is the noun for lifting something out of ruin and setting it free, which is the part of redemption that has to do with deliverance. It is a heavy Sanskritic word, at home in sermons and editorials rather than in talk. Six beats, with the long vowel near the end.
Reformation, liberation, uprooting, eradication, elevating, redemption.
ഗ്രാമത്തിന്റെ സമുദ്ധരണം അവരുടെ സ്വപ്നമായിരുന്നു.
graamathinte samuddharanam avarude swapnamaayirunnu
The village's upliftment was their dream.
All Malayalam words for “redemption”
- സമുദ്ധരണം (samuddharanam) — Reformation, liberation, uprooting, eradication, elevating, redemption.
- നിവൃത്തി (nivrithi) — Redemption, abandonment, finishing, rest, solution, means, salvation.
- സര്ഗ്ഗം (sarggam) — Abandoning, redemption, character, conduct, nature, certainty, creation, chapter, canto.
- ശാന്തി (shaanthi) — Peace, calmness, tranquility, relief, redemption from worldly things, atonement, worshipping of god (priest's occupation).
നിവൃത്തി (nivrithi) is really cessation or fulfilment, സര്ഗ്ഗം (sarggam) spreads across abandonment, creation and a canto of a poem, and ശാന്തി (shaanthi) is peace, so none of the four is the word Malayali Christians actually use for redemption.
Common questions
How do you say redemption in Malayalam?
There is no single word covering every sense. സമുദ്ധരണം (samuddharanam) is the closest here, naming liberation and raising up.
What about redeeming a pledge or a voucher?
That is a different idea altogether and Malayalam handles it with verbs for getting something back or paying off a debt.