Servant in Malayalam
ഭൃത്യന് (bhrithyan) is a servant or dependant in formal Malayalam, the word of older literature and of translated scripture. Modern speech prefers milder words for domestic help, and bhrithyan sounds dated and hierarchical.
Most common translation
Who should be protected and governed, servant, dependant.
ഭൃത്യന് വീട് വൃത്തിയാക്കി.
bhrithyan veedu vruthiyakki.
The servant cleaned the house.
All Malayalam words for “servant”
- ഭൃത്യന് (bhrithyan) — Who should be protected and governed, servant, dependant.
- ശിപായി (shipaayi) — Servant, peon, soldier.
- സൈരന്ധ്രന് (sairandhran) — Servant, attender, attendant.
- അടിയന് (adiyan) — My humble self, slave, servant.
- വിധേയന് (vidheyan) — A dependant, obedient person, servant.
- ശിഷ്യന് (shishyan) — Pupil, student, disciple, servant.
- ശുശ്രൂഷകന് (shushrooshakan) — One who attends on, minister, servant.
- അടിച്ചുതളിക്കാരി (adichuthalikkari) — Charwoman, maid servant, woman employed to clean the house.
- അടിപണിയുക (adipaniyuka) — Serve, attend on, depend on, act as a servant.
- പോട (poda) — One who is neither male nor female, hermaphrodite, female servant, heron.
- വേലക്കാരൻ (velakkaaran) — Servant. A person employed to do household work; helper.
shipaayi is a peon or office servant, also a soldier; shushrooshakan is one who waits on another; adiyan is a humble self-reference by a servant; shishyan is a pupil, with servant only as a stretched sense.
Common questions
How do you say servant in Malayalam?
ഭൃത്യന് (bhrithyan) in formal use; ശിപായി (shipaayi) for an office peon.
Which word fits an attendant or carer?
ശുശ്രൂഷകന് (shushrooshakan), one who attends on another.