Trend in Malayalam
Trend in the sense of the direction things are moving is ഒഴുക്ക് (ozhukk), literally the flow or current of water. The word is two beats, o-zhukk, with the retroflex zh that gives Malayalam its sound. News writing uses it for the trend of prices, of politics, of public mood.
Flow, current, course, trend.
പുഴയിലെ ഒഴുക്ക് ഇന്ന് ശക്തമാണ്.
puzhayile ozhukk innu shakthamaanu.
The current in the river is strong today.
All Malayalam words for “trend”
- ഒഴുക്ക് (ozhukk) — Flow, current, course, trend.
- അഭിപ്രായഗതി (abhipraya gathi) — Course of views, trend of opinions.
- ഫാഷൻ (fashan) — Fashion; the current style in clothes and appearance, a passing trend, the clothing trade.
ഫാഷൻ (fashan) is the borrowed word for fashion and does the work of trend only when clothes or passing styles are meant; അഭിപ്രായഗതി (abhipraya gathi) is narrower still, the trend of opinion.
Common questions
How do you say trend in Malayalam?
Trend is ഒഴുക്ക് (ozhukk), the same word as flow or current.
What word fits a social media trend?
Kerala speech borrows ഫാഷൻ (fashan) for a passing style, and for something trending online the English word is usually kept as it is.