Trunk in Malayalam
None of these candidates is a clean match for trunk. The nearest is ഒറ്റത്തടി (ottathadi), a single branchless trunk of a tree, though the word is used far more often for a person with no close relatives or a bachelor. The trunk of an elephant and a travelling trunk both have their own words that are not in this list.
A person with no close relatives, branchless trunk(Of a tree), a bachelor.
അയാൾ ഒരു ഒറ്റത്തടി ആണ്.
ayaal oru ottathadi aanu.
He is a man with no close relatives.
All Malayalam words for “trunk”
- ഒറ്റത്തടി (ottathadi) — A person with no close relatives, branchless trunk(Of a tree), a bachelor.
- അംഗുലി (amguli) — Finger, toe, tip of the elephant's trunk.
- ഭുജം (bhujam) — Arm, branch, a side of a triangle, branch of a tree, trunk of an elephant.
- ശ്രോതസ്സ് (shrothass) — The ear, trunk of an elephant, flow.
അംഗുലി (amguli) is only the tip of an elephant's trunk, and ഭുജം (bhujam) and ശ്രോതസ്സ് (shrothass) list trunk among a crowd of unrelated meanings, so none of them will do on its own.
Common questions
How do you say trunk in Malayalam?
There is no single word here; ഒറ്റത്തടി (ottathadi) is a bare branchless tree trunk, and the elephant's trunk and a luggage trunk take other words.
What does ottathadi usually mean in speech?
A person standing alone in the world, with no family around him. The tree-trunk sense is the literal one behind the image.