Slaughter in Malayalam
Slaughter in the butchery sense is കശാപ്പ് (kashaapp), a word that came into Malayalam through Urdu and still names the meat trade. A butcher's shop sign in Kerala may well carry it. Three syllables ending in a clipped double consonant.
Most common translation
Slaughter, butchery.
കശാപ്പ് കട രാവിലെ തുറക്കും.
kashaapp kada raavile thurakkum.
The butcher shop opens in the morning.
All Malayalam words for “slaughter”
- കശാപ്പ് (kashaapp) — Slaughter, butchery.
- മാരണം (maaranam) — Slaughter, destruction, great harm or trouble, a kind of poison, sorcery performed against enemies.
മാരണം (maaranam) is a Sanskrit word for killing and destruction with a strong flavour of harm and sorcery, so it does not fit the slaughter of animals for meat.
Common questions
How do you say slaughter in Malayalam?
കശാപ്പ് (kashaapp), the slaughtering of animals and the butchery trade.
Which word fits a massacre of people?
Neither comfortably. Kerala reporting uses a compound built on the word for killing; കശാപ്പ് (kashaapp) would sound like butchery of livestock.