Thicket in Malayalam
പൊന്ത (pontha) is a thicket, a tangle of bushes and low growth dense enough to hide in. It is a plain rural word, heard more often than written.
Most common translation
Thicket.
വഴിയരികിലെ പൊന്ത അവർ വെട്ടിമാറ്റി.
vazhiyarikile pontha avar vettimaatti.
They cleared the thicket by the roadside.
Dictionary entry
- പൊന്ത (pontha) — Thicket.
The word names undergrowth, not a wood or a forest, which Malayalam calls by another noun.
Common questions
How do you say thicket in Malayalam?
പൊന്ത (pontha).
Is it used figuratively?
Rarely. പൊന്ത (pontha) stays literal, describing scrub along field edges and stream banks.