Untruth in Malayalam
അനൃതം (anrutham) is untruth, a Sanskritic noun at home in religious and legal prose. Nobody uses it in conversation, where Malayalam has a short blunt word for a lie. Read the r as a light tap and keep the final nasal soft.
Most common translation
Untruth.
അനൃതം പറയുന്നത് ഒരിക്കലും ശരിയല്ല.
anrutham parayunnathu orikkalum shariyalla.
Telling an untruth is never right.
All Malayalam words for “untruth”
- അനൃതം (anrutham) — Untruth.
- ശരികേട് (shariked) — Wrong, incorrectness, untruth, inequality.
ശരികേട് (shariked) is wrongness or incorrectness rather than a deliberate lie, so it does not fill the same slot.
Common questions
How do you say untruth in Malayalam?
Untruth is അനൃതം (anrutham).
Is anrutham used in speech?
Rarely. It belongs to formal and scriptural Malayalam, while everyday speech uses a plainer word for a lie.