Sun in Malayalam
സൂര്യന് (sooryan) is the sun in ordinary Malayalam, from weather reports to children's drawings. അരുണന് (arunan), അര്ക്കന് (arkkan) and മിത്രന് (mithran) are poetic and mythological names for the same body, familiar from verse and from personal names.
Most common translation
Sun.
സൂര്യന് കരിമേഘങ്ങൾക്കിടയിൽ പെട്ടെന്ന് ഒളിച്ചു.
sooryan karimeghangalkkidayil pettennu olichu.
The sun suddenly hid among the dark clouds.
All Malayalam words for “sun”
- സൂര്യന് (sooryan) — Sun.
- അരുണന് (arunan) — Sun.
- അര്ക്കന് (arkkan) — Sun.
- മിത്രന് (mithran) — Sun.
- പ്രജാപതി (prajapathi) — Brahma, sun, king, father, Vishnu, penis.
- ജ്യോതിസ്സ് (jyothiss) — Light, brilliance, star, sun, moon, ray of light, sky, intellect, knowledge, astrology.
- അഗ്നിതപസ് (agnithapasu) — Penance with fire on all the four sides and the sun overhead.
- ഉദയഗിരി (udyagiri) — The mountain from which the sun seems to rise.
- കിഴക്ക് (kizhakku) — East, the direction in which the sun rises.
- കുട (kuda) — Umbrella. A folding cover held over the head against rain or sun.
- കൊടുംവെയില് (kodumveyil) — Terrible heat of the sun.
- പടിഞ്ഞാറ് (padinjaaru) — West, the direction where the sun sets; the western side.
- ബിംബം (bimbam) — Image, idol, the disc of the sun or the moon, mirror, reflected image, a globular object.
- മകരവിളക്ക് (makaravilakku) — An auspicious day at Sabarimala Temple on the 1st of the month Makara (when the sun enters the zodiac capricorn).
- മണ്ഡലം (mandalam) — Circle, sphere circumference, halo, disc of the sun, circular motion, society, a period of forty-one days.
- സൂര്യൻ (sooryan) — Sun. The sun in the sky; sunlight is veyil.
Those older names are not interchangeable in speech; using one of them to talk about the weather would sound like reciting poetry.
Common questions
How do you say sun in Malayalam?
സൂര്യന് (sooryan).
Why does the dictionary list several words for the sun?
Because classical poetry gave the sun many names, among them അരുണന് (arunan) and അര്ക്കന് (arkkan), which survive mostly in literature and in names.