Trees in Malayalam
None of the candidates here is the plain plural of tree. The closest is സസ്യം (sasyam), which covers plants, vegetation and greenery as a mass, and it is what a report means when it talks about trees and crops together. For a countable set of trees, Malayalam simply adds the plural ending to the singular noun for tree.
Plants, trees, etc. vegetables.
ഈ സസ്യം ദിവസവും നനയ്ക്കണം.
ee sasyam divasavum nanaykkanam.
This plant must be watered every day.
All Malayalam words for “trees”
- സസ്യം (sasyam) — Plants, trees, etc. vegetables.
- ഏറുമാടം (earumadam) — Hut on stakes on top of trees (to watch wild animals etc.).
- കഷായം (kashayam) — Medicinal decoction (Ayurveda), juice or gum of trees, red colour.
- കാട് (kaadu) — Forest, a large area thick with trees, woods, jungle.
- കുരങ്ങ് (kurangu) — Monkey. The monkey that lives in trees.
- തടി (thadi) — Wood; timber, the hard material got from trees; firewood is virak and a forest is kaadu.
- തള (thala) — Anklet, fetters, bondage, foot-rope with a noose for climbing up palm trees.
- പുഴക്കുക (puzhakkuka) — Fell trees by digging around, uproot, rend, produce a cracking sound.
കാട് (kaadu) is forest, തടി (thadi) is timber, and the rest of the list are things found in or made from trees rather than trees themselves.
Common questions
How do you say trees in Malayalam?
There is no separate word; the plural is formed from the singular noun for tree, and സസ്യം (sasyam) is used for trees and plants taken together.
What is the difference between sasyam and kaadu?
സസ്യം (sasyam) is plant life in general, while കാട് (kaadu) is a forest, a whole stretch of land thick with trees.