Upsetting in Malayalam
അട്ടിമറി (attimari) is a noun rather than the adjective upsetting: it means overturning, subversion or sabotage. Kerala political reporting uses it constantly for a coup inside a party or the deliberate derailing of a plan. For upsetting in the sense of distressing, Malayalam uses words about sorrow and hurt, and none of them is in this entry.
Upsetting, overthrowing, subversion, sabotage, undermining, headload work.
പദ്ധതി ആരോ അട്ടിമറി ചെയ്തു.
paddhathi aaro attimari cheythu.
Someone sabotaged the project.
Dictionary entry
- അട്ടിമറി (attimari) — Upsetting, overthrowing, subversion, sabotage, undermining, headload work.
The same word has a workaday sense of headload work, the stacking and shifting of goods, which is worth knowing because it can take a reader by surprise.
Common questions
How do you say upsetting in Malayalam?
In the sense of overturning or subversion, അട്ടിമറി (attimari); for upsetting as distressing the word does not fit.
What does attimari mean in politics?
An engineered overturning, a stitch up or a coup against a decision or a leadership, which is its main use in news.