School in Malayalam
School is വിദ്യാലയം (vidyaalayam), a compound meaning abode of learning, and it is the form on name boards and in official writing. പാഠശാല (paadashaala) is the older word, now with a traditional ring to it.
Most common translation
School, educational institution.
ഞങ്ങളുടെ വിദ്യാലയം ഗ്രാമത്തിലാണ്.
njangalude vidyaalayam graamathilaanu.
Our school is in the village.
All Malayalam words for “school”
- വിദ്യാലയം (vidyaalayam) — School, educational institution.
- പാഠശാല (paadashaala) — School, institute.
- പള്ളി (palli) — Christian church, shrine, mosque, palace, royal property, school.
- പീഠം (peedam) — Seat, stool, pedestal for placing an idol, etc., altar, throne, school, institute.
- അങ്കക്കളരി (ankakkalari) — Gurukula type of school for teaching martial arts.
- അദ്ധ്യയനകാലം (addhyayanakalam) — School days, period of celibacy, student days.
- അധ്യാപകൻ (adhyaapakan) — Teacher. A person who teaches in a school or college; instructor.
- അധ്യാപകർ (adhyapakar) — Teachers; those who teach in a school or college, instructors.
- അവധി (avadhi) — Holiday; a day off from work or school, leave.
- കല്ലടിക്കോടന് (kalldikkodan) — A peak of the Sahyan Mountains, a school of Kathakali introduced by Kalladikottu Nampoodiri.
- കോളേജ് (kolej) — College. A place of higher study after school.
- ക്ലാസുകൾ (klaasukal) — Classes; lessons or teaching periods, also the year groups of a school.
- നയങ്ങൾ (nayangal) — Policies; the official rules or principles a government, company or school follows.
- പദ്ധതികൾ (paddhathikal) — Plans, schemes, projects; the plural of paddhathi; projects; planned pieces of work, schemes undertaken by a government or company, assignments done at school.
- പേപ്പറുകൾ (pepparukal) — Papers, sheets of paper; also official documents or school question papers.
- ഫീസ് (fees) — Fee, the money paid for a service, such as school or doctor's charges.
- മഠം (madam) — Monastery, convent, nunnery, house of a Brahmin, school for teaching the Vedas (holy scriptures), ancient Gurukula.
- മണി (mani) — Bell, a bell rung in a school, temple or church; mani also means hour or clock.
- വിദ്യാർഥി (vidyaarthi) — Student. A person who studies in a school or college; pupil.
- വിദ്യാർഥികൾ (vidyaarthikal) — Students, pupils, those who study in a school or college.
- ശാസ്ത്രം (shaasthram) — Science, the study of nature and its laws, a school subject.
- സ്കൂൾ (skool) — School. A place where children study.
In speech most people simply use the English word; palli meant a school historically because teaching happened in places of worship, and kolej is a college.
Common questions
How do you say school in Malayalam?
വിദ്യാലയം (vidyaalayam) in writing, though the English word is common in speech.
What is a teacher called?
അധ്യാപകൻ (adhyaapakan), a person who teaches in a school or college.