Refuge in Malayalam
അവലംബം (avalambam) is the support or prop a person leans on, and in older usage it stretches to refuge: the thing that holds you up when nothing else does. It is Sanskritic and formal, the vocabulary of prayers and of writing about the destitute. Four beats, with the nasal in the middle.
Refuge, pendant, hanging posture.
വൃദ്ധർക്ക് മക്കൾ ആണ് അവലംബം.
vriddharkku makkal aanu avalambam.
Children are the refuge of the elderly.
All Malayalam words for “refuge”
- അവലംബം (avalambam) — Refuge, pendant, hanging posture.
- വിശ്രയം (vishrayam) — Refuge, dependence, succour.
- ഗതി (gathi) — Course, movement, gait, direction, protection, refuge, salvation, (gram.) preposition.
- പ്രപന്ന (prapanna) — Reached, arrived, approached, taken refuge, poor.
The ordinary Malayalam word for shelter or refuge is not among these entries; വിശ്രയം (vishrayam) is a rare bookish synonym, ഗതി (gathi) is mainly course or movement and carries refuge only in religious contexts, and പ്രപന്ന (prapanna) is an adjective for one who has taken refuge.
Common questions
How do you say refuge in Malayalam?
None of these is the everyday word. അവലംബം (avalambam) is the nearest, meaning the support one leans on.
How would you say a refugee camp?
Malayalam builds that on the noun for shelter, which this entry list does not include.