Sorrowful in Malayalam
For sorrowful Malayalam uses സങ്കടമുള്ള (sankadamulla), literally having sorrow in you, built from the common noun for distress. It describes a face, a song or a piece of news just as comfortably. The ending ulla is the all-purpose way of turning a noun into an adjective.
Sad, sorrowful; feeling or causing unhappiness.
അവൾ സങ്കടമുള്ള പാട്ട് പാടി.
aval sankadamulla pattu padi.
She sang a sad song.
All Malayalam words for “sorrowful”
- സങ്കടമുള്ള (sankadamulla) — Sad, sorrowful; feeling or causing unhappiness.
- അദുഖ (adukha) — Not sorrowful, happy.
- മുരയുക (murayuka) — Be weary, be distressed, be sorrowful.
അദുഖ (adukha) is the opposite and means not sorrowful or happy, so it must not be picked off the list by its spelling. മുരയുക (murayuka) is a verb, to grow weary or distressed, not a describing word.
Common questions
How do you say sorrowful in Malayalam?
സങ്കടമുള്ള (sankadamulla) is the adjective for sorrowful or sad.
Why is adukha not the answer?
അദുഖ (adukha) is a negated form meaning free of sorrow, that is, happy, which is the reverse of what sorrowful says.