Renunciation in Malayalam
ഹാനം (haanam) is a Sanskritic noun whose senses run from abandoning and renunciation to loss, deficiency and escape. Renunciation is one meaning among many, and the word is rare enough that readers take it from context. Two beats, the first long.
Renunciation, abandoning, deliverance, loss, deficiency, escape, danger, defeat, prowess, valour, strength.
ഈ തീരുമാനം കൊണ്ട് ആര്ക്കും ഹാനം ഇല്ല.
ee theerumaanam kondu aarkkum haanam illa.
No one suffers loss by this decision.
Dictionary entry
- ഹാനം (haanam) — Renunciation, abandoning, deliverance, loss, deficiency, escape, danger, defeat, prowess, valour, strength.
This is not the word Malayalis use for religious renunciation, which has its own well known vocabulary of giving up the world; the entry here is a dictionary word rather than a living one.
Common questions
How do you say renunciation in Malayalam?
ഹാനം (haanam) covers abandoning and giving up, but the familiar religious term for renouncing the world is a different word altogether.
What else does ഹാനം (haanam) mean?
Loss, deficiency and escape, and in older verse even danger or valour, so it depends heavily on the sentence.