Vegetable in Malayalam
പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari) is the everyday word for a vegetable and for vegetables as a class, the fresh produce bought for cooking. It is pa-cha-kka-ri, from the words for green or raw and for a cooked side dish. A vegetable shop and a vegetable curry both take it.
Vegetable. Vegetables in general, the fresh produce used for cooking.
ചന്തയിൽ നിന്ന് പച്ചക്കറി വാങ്ങി.
chanthayil ninnu pachakkari vangi.
Bought vegetables from the market.
All Malayalam words for “vegetable”
- പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari) — Vegetable. Vegetables in general, the fresh produce used for cooking.
- കത്തിരി (kathiri) — The vegetable brinjal, scissors.
- തൊലി (tholi) — Skin, the outer covering of the body, also the peel of a fruit or vegetable.
- പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) — Vegetable preparation made by cooking (stewing) banana, tubers, yam, jack fruit, etc.
കത്തിരി (kathiri) is one particular vegetable, the brinjal, and പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) is a dish of boiled tubers and plantain, so neither is the general word.
Common questions
How do you say vegetable in Malayalam?
Vegetable is പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari).
Does the word change in the plural?
It does not have to. പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari) already covers vegetables in general, and the plural ending is added only when separate items are being counted.