Vacuum in Malayalam
ശൂന്യത (shoonyatha) is emptiness and void, and it is the word physics uses for a vacuum. It also serves for a vacuum in the figurative sense, the gap left by somebody absent. The long vowel is drawn out and the last syllable is light.
Most common translation
Vacuum, emptiness, void, vacancy.
വീട്ടിൽ ഒറ്റയ്ക്കായപ്പോൾ ശൂന്യത തോന്നി.
veettil ottaykkaayappol shoonyatha thonni.
Alone at home, I felt an emptiness.
Dictionary entry
- ശൂന്യത (shoonyatha) — Vacuum, emptiness, void, vacancy.
A vacuum cleaner goes by its English name in Kerala, so this word is for the physical and figurative void, not the appliance.
Common questions
How do you say vacuum in Malayalam?
Vacuum is ശൂന്യത (shoonyatha).
Can shoonyatha mean a vacuum in leadership?
Yes. The figurative use is common in political writing about a void somebody has left behind.