Vegetables in Malayalam
Vegetables as a group are പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari), the same word Malayalam uses for a single vegetable. Say pa-cha-kka-ri. A market sign, a shopping list and a recipe all use this form without a plural ending.
Most common translation
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 “vegetables”
- പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari) — Vegetable. Vegetables in general, the fresh produce used for cooking.
- അവിയല് (aviyal) — Curry made by cooking mixed vegetables.
- മാംസം (maamsam) — Flesh, meat, muscle, fleshy part of vegetables.
- സസ്യം (sasyam) — Plants, trees, etc. vegetables.
സസ്യം (sasyam) is plants and crops in the botanical sense, and മാംസം (maamsam) means flesh or meat, applied to the pulpy part of a vegetable only by extension.
Common questions
How do you say vegetables in Malayalam?
Vegetables is പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari).
What word lies behind vegetarian?
സസ്യം (sasyam), the word for plants and plant food, which is the first half of the Malayalam term for a vegetarian.