Sprout in Malayalam

A sprout is അങ്കുരം (ankuram), the new shoot pushing out of a seed or a stem. It is the noun botanists and gardeners use, and it also appears figuratively for something just beginning. Three syllables, with the nasal before the k.

Most common translation

അങ്കുരം (ankuram)

A new shoot on a plant, sprout.

വിത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് അങ്കുരം പുറത്തു വന്നു.

vithil ninnu ankuram purathu vannu.

A sprout came out of the seed.

All Malayalam words for “sprout”

മുള (mula) is the everyday word for a shoot or seedling and is what you would hear in a Kerala garden, while അങ്കുരിക്കുക (ankurikkuka) is the verb to sprout. പ്രവാളം (pravalam) is a coral or a tender shoot in poetry.

Common questions

How do you say sprout in Malayalam?

അങ്കുരം (ankuram) for the noun; the verb to sprout is അങ്കുരിക്കുക (ankurikkuka).

Which word would a farmer use?

മുള (mula), the plain word for a shoot or seedling.