Washer-man in Malayalam
A man who washes clothes for a living is അലുക്കുകാരന് (alukkukaran), a word built on the everyday verb for beating laundry clean against a stone. Say alukkukaran with the weight on the long syllable before the ending. It belongs to the old vocabulary of village trades, so you meet it in older writing and in talk about traditional occupations rather than on a modern laundry sign.
Washer-man, laundryman.
അലുക്കുകാരന് രാവിലെ തുണികൾ കൊണ്ടുപോയി.
alukkukaran raavile thunikal kondupoyi.
The washerman took the clothes away in the morning.
Dictionary entry
- അലുക്കുകാരന് (alukkukaran) — Washer-man, laundryman.
This is the only entry on offer, and it is the plain word, though it names the hereditary occupation; a present day dry cleaning shop is referred to by the English word laundry.
Common questions
How do you say washer-man in Malayalam?
Washer-man is അലുക്കുകാരന് (alukkukaran).
Is alukkukaran still used today?
It is understood everywhere but sounds old fashioned, because the trade itself has largely moved to laundry and dry cleaning shops that go by their English names.