Title in Malayalam
For the title of a book, an article or a film, Malayalam uses ശീര്ഷകം (sheershakam), from the word for head. Newspapers use it for a caption or heading too. The long vowel in the first syllable carries the stress.
Most common translation
Headline, caption, title.
കവിതയ്ക്ക് നല്ല ശീര്ഷകം നല്കി.
kavithaykku nalla sheershakam nalki.
A good title was given to the poem.
All Malayalam words for “title”
- ശീര്ഷകം (sheershakam) — Headline, caption, title.
- തലവാചകം (thalavaachakam) — Headline, title, bannerline.
- അധികാരം (adhikaram) — Power authority, responsibility, title, claim, chapter, department, paragraph.
- ബഹുമതി (bahumathi) — Honour, position, recognition, title.
- സ്ഥാനം (sthaanam) — Place, position, status, dwelling, abode, seat, rank, title.
- അച്ചന് (achan) — Venerable person, a title of nobility, a christian priest.
- ഡോൺ (don) — Don, a title placed before a name and, in films, the head of a criminal gang; the English verb to don means to put on clothing, dharikkuka.
- ശ്രീമതി (sreemathi) — Mrs; a respectful title placed before a married woman's name.
തലവാചകം (thalavaachakam) is a newspaper headline, ബഹുമതി (bahumathi) and സ്ഥാനം (sthaanam) are title in the sense of an honour or rank, and അധികാരം (adhikaram) is title in the legal sense of a claim.
Common questions
How do you say title in Malayalam?
ശീര്ഷകം (sheershakam) for the title of a work, ബഹുമതി (bahumathi) for an honorary title.
Which word fits a title before a name?
Those are borrowed or honorific forms, as with ശ്രീമതി (sreemathi), placed before a married woman's name.