Tail-feather in Malayalam
പീലി (peeli) is specifically the peacock's tail feather, the one children keep pressed between the pages of a notebook, and the feather fan carried in temple processions. The word also stretches to an eyelash and to the tender blade of a palm leaf.
Tail-feather of a peacock, eyelash, tender leaf- blade of a palm tree, mountain, gold, decorative fan made of peacock feathers used in state or temple processions.
മയിലിന്റെ പീലി കുട്ടി പുസ്തകത്തില് വെച്ചു.
mayilinte peeli kutti pusthakathil vechu.
The child kept the peacock feather in the book.
Dictionary entry
- പീലി (peeli) — Tail-feather of a peacock, eyelash, tender leaf- blade of a palm tree, mountain, gold, decorative fan made of peacock feathers used in state or temple processions.
It is not a general word for any bird's tail feather; that would be described with the words for tail and feather.
Common questions
How do you say tail-feather in Malayalam?
For a peacock's, പീലി (peeli).
Where is it used in Kerala?
In temple and festival processions, where fans made of പീലി (peeli) are carried as part of the display.