Thrashing in Malayalam
തല്ല് (thallu) is a thrashing: the beating itself, the noun from the verb to beat. It also means a shove, and in the plural it names a scuffle.
Most common translation
Beating, thrashing, striking.
കുട്ടികൾക്ക് ഒരിക്കലും തല്ല് കൊടുക്കരുത്.
kuttikalkku orikkalum thallu kodukkaruthu
Never give children a beating.
All Malayalam words for “thrashing”
- തല്ല് (thallu) — Beating, thrashing, striking.
- മേടിക്കുക (medikkuka) — Buy; (fig.) get a thrashing.
മേടിക്കുക (medikkuka) means to buy and reaches thrashing only through a dry idiom about getting one.
Common questions
How do you say thrashing in Malayalam?
തല്ല് (thallu).
What is the idiom with the word for buying?
മേടിക്കുക (medikkuka), to buy, is used jokingly for collecting a thrashing, as though you had gone out and purchased it.