Sand in Malayalam
Sand is മണൽ (manal), the word for the fine sand of a riverbank or a beach and one of the most ordinary nouns in the language. A second entry with the same spelling, മണല് (manal), is loose sand.
Most common translation
Sand. The fine sand of a river bank or beach.
കടൽത്തീരത്ത് മണൽ ചൂടായിരുന്നു.
kadaltheerathu manal choodayirunnu.
The sand on the beach was hot.
All Malayalam words for “sand”
- മണൽ (manal) — Sand. The fine sand of a river bank or beach.
- ഗോദ (goda) — A raised platform filled with sand for wrestling.
- ചെമ്മണ്ണ് (chemmannu) — Red sand or soil.
- തിട്ട (thitta) — Raised bank, sand- hill, platform.
- പൂന്തുക (poonthuka) — Sink in sand or mud etc.
- പൊഴി (pozhi) — Sand bank between the sea and back waters (which disappears during monsoon), furrow for sowing seed in the ploughed field, groove.
- മണല് (manal) — Loose sand.
- മണല്ത്തരി (manalthari) — Grain of sand, granulated particle of sand, sand granules.
- മാമാങ്കം (maamaankam) — A very great festival, a great festival held once in twelve years on the sand bed at Thirunavai in the month of 'Magha'(January-February).
The rest are particular kinds or places: chemmannu is red sand or laterite soil, pozhi a sandbar at a river mouth and goda a sand-filled wrestling pit.
Common questions
How do you say sand in Malayalam?
മണൽ (manal).
What is a sandbar called?
പൊഴി (pozhi), the bank between the sea and the backwaters that vanishes in the monsoon.