Stump in Malayalam

ദന്തകീലം (danthakeelam) is one particular stump: the broken stump of a tooth. Say dan-tha-kee-lam, built from the words for tooth and peg. It is dental and anatomical vocabulary rather than the general English stump.

Most common translation

ദന്തകീലം (danthakeelam)

The stump of a tooth.

വായിൽ ഒരു ദന്തകീലം മാത്രം ബാക്കിയുണ്ട്.

vaayil oru danthakeelam maathram baakkiyundu.

Only one tooth stump is left in the mouth.

Dictionary entry

The stump of a felled tree and the stumps on a cricket pitch take other words, and neither is in this entry.

Common questions

How do you say stump in Malayalam?

The stump of a tooth is ദന്തകീലം (danthakeelam); other kinds of stump take different words.

How do you say the stump of a tree?

Not with this word. Malayalam has its own term for the base left after a tree is cut, and this entry does not list it.