Story in Malayalam
A story is കഥ (katha), two light syllables, ka-tha, with a soft dental th. It covers a short story, a film plot and the tale a grandmother tells. Kerala uses it so freely that it also stands for the gossip going round.
Most common translation
Story, fiction, tale.
മുത്തശ്ശി കഥ പറഞ്ഞുതന്നു.
mutthashi katha paranjuthannu.
Grandmother told us a story.
All Malayalam words for “story”
- കഥ (katha) — Story, fiction, tale.
- നോവല് (noval) — Novel, story, fiction.
- ആഖ്യാനം (aakhyaanam) — Story telling, legend, narration, speech, talk, notice.
- ഏഷണി (eshani) — Calumny, tale-bearing, a tell-tale story, back-biting.
- കഥാനായകന് (kathaanaayakan) — 'hero' of the story, main male character.
- കഥാപാത്രങ്ങൾ (kathaapaathrangal) — Characters; the persons in a story, film or play; letters of an alphabet are called aksharangal.
- കഥാസാരം (kadhasaram) — Gist of the story.
- നാടോടിക്കഥ (naadodikkatha) — Folk tale, story common or current in the country, folk story, folklore.
- നായകൻ (naayakan) — Hero; the main male character of a film or story, also a brave person who is admired.
- പഴങ്കഥ (pazhankatha) — Old story, ancient story, stories of antiquity.
- പുരാണകഥ (puraanakatha) — Ancient story, story in the Puranas, epics, legends.
- പുറപ്പാട് (purappadu) — Beginning of a journey, setting out, preparation, appearance of a character in Kathakali before the story begins.
- പൂര്വ്വകഥ (poorvakatha) — Old story, beginning of the story.
- പ്രമേയം (prameyam) — Theme, the central subject of a story, film or talk; in speech people also say vishayam or the English theem.
- പ്രാസംഗികം (praasamgikam) — An incident inserted into a story, an episode, sub-plot.
- വിരചിക്കുക (virachikkuka) — Construct, create, compose (story, poem, etc.).
നോവല് (noval) is a novel, ആഖ്യാനം (aakhyaanam) is storytelling or legend, and കഥാസാരം (kadhasaram) is the gist of a story.
Common questions
How do you say story in Malayalam?
A story is കഥ (katha).
Can katha mean an excuse?
In speech, yes. Telling someone not to make up a story is a common way of calling their explanation invented, much as English says that is just a story.