Sorrow in Malayalam
Sorrow is സന്താപം (santhaapam), a noun that carries grief and the burning heat of mourning in the same breath, since its root sense is heat. It belongs to writing, speeches and condolence notes rather than kitchen talk, with the weight on the long taa in the middle.
Sorrow, grief, affliction, heat.
മുത്തശ്ശി മരിച്ചപ്പോൾ എല്ലാവർക്കും സന്താപം ഉണ്ടായി.
muthashi marichappol ellaavarkkum santhaapam undaayi.
When grandmother died everyone felt grief.
All Malayalam words for “sorrow”
- സന്താപം (santhaapam) — Sorrow, grief, affliction, heat.
- അല്ലല് (allal) — Sorrow.
- ഖേദം (gedam) — Grief, sorrow, disease, poverty, weariness.
- അഘം (agham) — Sin, harm, sorrow, pain.
- കോഴ (kozha) — Bribe, bashfulness, fear, sorrow, crime, fault.
- താപം (thapam) — Heat, pain, sorrow, grief.
- സുഖക്കേട് (sugakked) — Absence of happiness, illness, sorrow, ill health, uneasiness.
- അശോകന് (ashokan) — One without sorrow.
- എരിപൊരി (eripori) — Spark, great heat, burning, (fig).great pain and sorrow, fretting and fuming.
- വ്യസനം (vyasanam) — Any of the wrong doings like sorrow, danger, misery, sin, excessive passion, drinking (liquors), gambling, hunting, vice, etc.
ഖേദം (gedam) sits closer to regret and is what you hear in apologies, while അല്ലല് (allal) is sorrow mixed with hardship and sounds old-fashioned. കോഴ (kozha) is first of all a bribe, so it is a poor choice for sorrow.
Common questions
How do you say sorrow in Malayalam?
Sorrow is സന്താപം (santhaapam); use ഖേദം (gedam) when the feeling is nearer to regret.
Which of these words fits a message of condolence?
സന്താപം (santhaapam) is the one obituaries and condolence messages use; താപം (thapam) stays with physical heat and pain.