Sleep in Malayalam
To sleep is ഉറങ്ങുക (urangguka), the ordinary verb a parent uses to send a child to bed. It covers falling asleep and being asleep, and it is the verb behind most of the sleep vocabulary on this page. The noun sleep is ഉറക്കം (urakkam), built from the same root.
Sleep, to rest with eyes closed; to fall asleep at night.
കുട്ടി നേരത്തെ ഉറങ്ങി.
kutti nerathe urangi.
The child slept early.
All Malayalam words for “sleep”
- ഉറങ്ങുക (urangguka) — Sleep, to rest with eyes closed; to fall asleep at night.
- ഉറക്കം (urakkam) — Sleep, slumber, rest.
- നിദ്ര (nidra) — Sleep, laziness, indolence, dormant state.
- തുകില് (thukil) — Cloth, dress, sleep.
- ഉറക്കം വരുന്ന (urakkam varunna) — Sleepy, drowsy; feeling the need to sleep.
- ഉറക്കപ്പിച്ച് (urakkappich) — State of being half-awake, incoherent utterances during sleep.
- മാസ്മരവിദ്യ (maasmaravidya) — Mesmerism, hypnotic power, application of mental power to influence or make others sleep etc. (known after Franz Mesmer, a German physician.
- സ്വപ്നം (swapnam) — State between sleep and waking up, dream, dreaming, state of imaging, laziness, indolence.
നിദ്ര (nidra) is the Sanskrit noun for sleep, used in medicine, yoga and poetry, and it also means laziness or a dormant state; തുകില് (thukil) reaches sleep only as a marginal sense and mainly means cloth.
Common questions
How do you say sleep in Malayalam?
The verb is ഉറങ്ങുക (urangguka) and the noun is ഉറക്കം (urakkam).
How do I say I did not get any sleep?
Build the sentence on the noun ഉറക്കം (urakkam) with a negative verb; that is the natural pattern in Kerala speech.