Tooth in Malayalam
പല്ല് (pallu) is the tooth, the plain word for the hard white things you bite with. It has a doubled l and the clipped final vowel. The same word names the teeth of a comb or a saw.
Most common translation
Tooth, one of the hard white parts in the mouth used for biting and chewing.
രാവിലെ പല്ല് തേക്കണം.
raavile pallu thekkanam.
Teeth must be brushed in the morning.
All Malayalam words for “tooth”
- പല്ല് (pallu) — Tooth, one of the hard white parts in the mouth used for biting and chewing.
- ദന്തം (dantham) — Tooth, ivory.
- രദം (radam) — Tearing, cleavage, scratch, tooth, tusk of elephant.
- അണപ്പല്ല് (anappallu) — Grinder, double tooth, molar.
- ദന്തകീലം (danthakeelam) — The stump of a tooth.
ദന്തം (dantham) is the Sanskrit term, used in dental and formal contexts and also meaning ivory, while അണപ്പല്ല് (anappallu) is specifically a molar.
Common questions
How do you say tooth in Malayalam?
പല്ല് (pallu) in everyday speech, ദന്തം (dantham) in formal or medical use.
How do you say toothache?
Speakers join പല്ല് (pallu) to the word for pain, with the tooth part of the compound unchanged.