Skeleton in Malayalam
A skeleton is അസ്ഥികുടം (asthikudam), a compound built from the word for bone. It is the word used in biology lessons and in reports of remains found during digging. Four syllables, with the stress sitting on the first.
Most common translation
Skeleton, ramus.
ക്ലാസ് മുറിയിൽ ഒരു അസ്ഥികുടം ഉണ്ട്.
klaasu muriyil oru asthikudam undu.
There is a skeleton in the classroom.
Dictionary entry
- അസ്ഥികുടം (asthikudam) — Skeleton, ramus.
The entry also records a second anatomical sense, the ramus of a bone, which is specialist usage and does not affect the everyday meaning.
Common questions
How do you say skeleton in Malayalam?
അസ്ഥികുടം (asthikudam), literally the frame of bones.
Is it used figuratively, as in a skeleton staff?
No. The figurative English senses do not carry over; Malayalam keeps this word for the physical bone structure.