Sweets in Malayalam
Sweets is മധുരപലഹാരം (madhurapalahaaram) in Malayalam, a compound meaning sweet snacks or confectionery. It covers festival sweets, shop confectionery and the box carried to a celebration. The word is transparent, built from sweet and snack.
Most common translation
മധുരപലഹാരം (madhurapalahaaram)
Sweets, confectionery.
ഓണത്തിന് അമ്മ മധുരപലഹാരം ഉണ്ടാക്കി.
onathinu amma madhurapalahaaram undaakki.
Mother made sweets for Onam.
All Malayalam words for “sweets”
- മധുരപലഹാരം (madhurapalahaaram) — Sweets, confectionery.
- കലിക്കുക (kalikkuka) — Feel pain or irritation in the eye, be surfeited with sweets.
This is the only fitting option; kalikkuka is an unrelated verb about irritation in the eye, which also describes being surfeited with sweets.
Common questions
How do you say sweets in Malayalam?
Say മധുരപലഹാരം (madhurapalahaaram).
Is there a word for having eaten too many sweets?
കലിക്കുക (kalikkuka) carries that sense of being surfeited, alongside its main meaning of smarting in the eye.