Rice-field in Malayalam
A rice field is കണ്ടം (kandam), the word for a plot of wet land laid out for paddy. It is as much a land record term as a farming one, and it is how a field is identified in older documents.
Most common translation
Rice-field, farm.
കണ്ടം നിറയെ നെല്ല് വളർന്നു.
kandam niraye nellu valarnnu.
Paddy grew all over the field.
Dictionary entry
- കണ്ടം (kandam) — Rice-field, farm.
The word also means a piece or section of something, and it survives as the last element of many Kerala place names.
Common questions
How do you say rice-field in Malayalam?
Say കണ്ടം (kandam).
Why do Kerala place names end in this word?
Because settlements grew around named paddy plots, and the word for the plot stayed in the name.