Rend in Malayalam
ചീന്തുക (cheenthuka) is to tear or rend, splitting cloth, a leaf or flesh along its length. The same verb is used for combing out fibre, which gives a sense of how it pictures the action: something drawn apart in strips. Three beats, the first long.
Most common translation
Tear, rend, comb, give a blow.
അവൻ കടലാസ് രണ്ടായി ചീന്തി.
avan kadalaasu randaayi cheenthi.
He tore the paper in two.
All Malayalam words for “rend”
- ചീന്തുക (cheenthuka) — Tear, rend, comb, give a blow.
- പുഴക്കുക (puzhakkuka) — Fell trees by digging around, uproot, rend, produce a cracking sound.
പുഴക്കുക (puzhakkuka) is about uprooting trees by digging around them and only reaches rending through that sense of wrenching something out of place.
Common questions
How do you say rend in Malayalam?
ചീന്തുക (cheenthuka), the verb for tearing something apart.
Is it used about paper?
It can be, though for tearing paper Malayalis more often use the common verb for ripping something.