Sourness in Malayalam
Sourness as a quality is പുളിരസം (pulirasam), literally sour taste, a compound of the sour root and the word for flavour. Cooks use it when talking about balancing a curry. Four even syllables, nothing stressed heavily.
Most common translation
Sourness, sour taste.
തൈരിന് ഇന്ന് കൂടുതൽ പുളിരസം ആണ്.
thairinu innu kooduthal pulirasam aanu.
The curd is more sour today.
All Malayalam words for “sourness”
- പുളിരസം (pulirasam) — Sourness, sour taste.
- പുളി (puli) — Sourness, fruit of the tamarind tree, acidity, curry made from tamarind fruit juice.
പുളി (puli) does appear in dictionaries as sourness, but in real use it almost always means tamarind, the fruit or the curry made from it, so the compound is the safer choice.
Common questions
How do you say sourness in Malayalam?
പുളിരസം (pulirasam), literally sour taste.
What does puli usually mean?
In practice പുളി (puli) means tamarind, and by extension the sour tamarind curry, rather than sourness in the abstract.