Sleep in Malayalam
Malayalam words whose English meaning includes “sleep”:
- ഉറക്കം (urakkam) — Sleep, slumber, rest.
- ഉറക്കപ്പിച്ച് (urakkappich) — State of being half-awake, incoherent utterances during sleep.
- തുകില് (thukil) — Cloth, dress, sleep.
- നിദ്ര (nidra) — Sleep, laziness, indolence, dormant state.
- 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.