Seed in Malayalam
വിത്ത് (vithu) is seed, specifically the seed that is sown to raise a plant, and it is the word farmers and gardeners use. Say it with a short first vowel and a light th.
Most common translation
Seed. The seed sown to grow a plant.
കർഷകൻ വിത്ത് വിതച്ചു.
karshakan vithu vithachu.
The farmer sowed the seed.
All Malayalam words for “seed”
- വിത്ത് (vithu) — Seed. The seed sown to grow a plant.
- അണ്ടി (andi) — Seed, stone inside a fruit, nut, kernel, testicle, scrotum.
- മുത്ത് (muth) — Pearl, seed, sth. most noble.
- ഉലുവ (uluva) — A medicinal herb, its seed fenugreek (Trigonella foenum).
- ഏലം (ealam) — Cardamom (plant or seed).
- പാക്ക് (pakku) — Sowing, paving, sown seed, arecanut.
- പൊഴി (pozhi) — Sand bank between the sea and back waters (which disappears during monsoon), furrow for sowing seed in the ploughed field, groove.
andi is the stone or kernel inside a fruit, and also a nut, so a mango stone is andi rather than vithu; ealam is cardamom and pakku runs from sowing to the arecanut.
Common questions
How do you say seed in Malayalam?
വിത്ത് (vithu).
What is the word for the stone inside a fruit?
അണ്ടി (andi), which also means nut or kernel.