Scorning in Malayalam

Read this entry closely: അഗര്‍ഹണം (agarhanam) carries a negative prefix, so it names not scorning, the absence of blame or censure. As a translation of scorning it is the wrong way round. The base noun it is formed from, without that prefix, is the word for censure and contempt.

Most common translation

അഗര്‍ഹണം (agarhanam)

Act of not scorning or blaming.

മറ്റുള്ളവരോടുള്ള അഗര്‍ഹണം ഒരു നല്ല ഗുണമാണ്.

mattullavarodulla agarhanam oru nalla gunamaanu.

Not blaming others is a good quality.

Dictionary entry

If you want scorning, drop the negative prefix and use that base noun; അഗര്‍ഹണം (agarhanam) means precisely the opposite and belongs to Sanskrit-derived commentary.

Common questions

How do you say scorning in Malayalam?

Not with അഗര്‍ഹണം (agarhanam). That form, with its negative prefix, means not scorning. Scorning is the base noun without the prefix, or a phrase built on a word for contempt.

Where does a word like this turn up?

In commentary and verse of the Sanskrit tradition, where a virtue is often described by naming what it refrains from.