Water in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “water”

• വെള്ളം (vellam) — Water, the clear liquid people drink and wash with, rain or river water.
• അംബു (ambu) — Water.
• ഉദകം (udakam) — Water.
• ജലം (jalam) — Water; water, liquid state.
• നീര് (neer) — Water, juice, swelling of the organs.
• പുനല്‍ (punal) — Water, river, current, flow, funnel.
• കമലം (kamalam) — Lotus, water, pheasant, the indian crane.
• നീവാരം (neevaram) — Grains, water.
• മൃദുലം (mridulam) — That which is gentle or soft, water.
• രോമം (romam) — Hair (of the body), water, pore, hole, (fig.) a trifling or insignificant thing.
• ഹേമം (hemam) — Gold, water, snow, winter; strain, violence, force, compulsion.
• ഗോത്രം (gothram) — Clan, tribe, family, mountain, forest, temple, field, water, cowshed, community, herd of cows, quiver, crown, ornamental umbrella, wealth.
• പാനീയം (paaneeyam) — Beverage, anything suitable for drinking, water.
• പൂര്‍ണ്ണം (poornnam) — Fullness, state of being complete, perfect, water.
• വ്യോമം (vyomam) — Sky, atmosphere, water.
• അഞ്ജലി (anjali) — Holding the palms of the hands together (in salutation), a vessel(pot) for holding water.
• അടിച്ചുതളി (adichuthali) — Sweep the floor and sprinkle water on it (to purify it as a ritual), the work of sweeping and scrubbing the floor.
• അപ്സരസ് (apsarasu) — Water nymph.
• ആവി (aavi) — Vapour, water vapour, smoke, life.
• ഉപരിതലം (uparithalam) — Surface, the outer or top layer of something; the face of water, land or an object.
• ഉറവിടങ്ങൾ (uravidangal) — Sources, the places or people something comes from; the origins of water, news or information.
• ഏത്തം (eatham) — Obeisance, praise, a kind of punishment for wrong-doing, a device to draw water.
• ഐസ് (aisu) — Ice, frozen water.
• കുടിക്കുക (kudikkuka) — Drink; to swallow a liquid, to take water or a beverage; drinking; taking water or another liquid into the mouth and swallowing it.
• കുമിള (kumila) — Bubble, water bubble.
• ചാനൽ (chaanal) — Channel, a television or radio station; also a route or passage through which water or news flows.
• ചാമ്പുക (chaambuka) — Doze, send water through a hose pipe.
• ചുക്കുവെള്ളം (chukkuvellam) — Water boiled with dried ginger.
• ചൂടുള്ള (choodulla) — Hot, warm to the touch; of high temperature, said of food, water or weather.
• ജലപാനം (jalapaanam) — Drinking water, the simplest kind of food.
• ജലപ്രവാഹം (jalapravaaham) — Water current, flood.
• ജലബാധ (jalabaadha) — Ravage caused by water, calls of nature.
• ജലയാത്ര (jalayaathra) — Voyage, journey by water.
• ജലാശയം (jalaashayam) — Reservoir of water, well, pond, lake, sea, etc.
• തര്‍പ്പണം (tharappanam) — Satisfaction, libation to the spirits of the dead, sprinkling (consecrated) water, fountain.
• തവള (thavala) — Frog. A small jumping amphibian that lives near water.
• താപനില (thaapanila) — Temperature; the degree of heat or cold of the air, water or the body.
• താറാവ് (thaaraavu) — Duck. A water bird with webbed feet, kept for eggs and meat.
• തീര്‍ത്ഥം (theertham) — Holy water, holy place, ferry, water of the Ganges.
• തോര്‍ത്തുക (thorthuka) — Dry, wipe water from the body with a towel after bath.
• തോര്‍ത്ത് (thorth) — Cloth used for wiping water, towel.
• ദാഹിക്കുന്ന (dahikkunna) — Thirsty; feeling the need to drink water.
• ദ്വീപ് (dweepu) — Island, a piece of land surrounded by water.
• നനഞ്ഞ (nananja) — Wet, soaked with water; damp, as of clothes or hair after rain.
• നിര്‍ജ്ജലം (nirjjalam) — Sth.without water, waterless place, dry place or desert.
• നില (nila) — Condition, state, position, a fathom depth, (water level up to one's head), standing, camp, stature, manners, storey of a building.
• നീരാവി (neeraavi) — Water vapour, steam.
• നീരോടി (neerodi) — Water channel, sluice.
• നീര്‍ക്കണം (neerkkanam) — Water- drop.
• പാനി (paani) — Drinking water, a concentrated form of toddy, thick jaggery, a pot for gathering toddy.
• പായല്‍ (payal) — Water weed, mosses.
• പീത (peetha) — Yellow coloured, drunk, soaked in water.
• പുണ്യതീര്‍ത്ഥം (punyatheertham) — Place of pilgrimage, water of a sacred river, holy water.
• പുതുവെള്ളം (puthuvellam) — Water collected in rivers, wells, etc. after fresh rains.
• പുളവന്‍ (pulavan) — A kind of snake, fresh - water snake.
• പൊങ്ങുതടി (ponguthadi) — A raft that floats in water, a catamaran.
• പ്രവഹം (pravaham) — Flow, current, wind, water vessel.
• ബന്ധം (bandham) — Connection, a link or tie between people or things; also a service connection for electricity, water or internet; relation, the connection between people or things; also a relative, a member of the family.
• ബാഷ്പം (baashpam) — Tear, vapour, water vapour, mist.
• മീൻ (meen) — Fish; a water animal with fins and scales, also fish eaten as food.

ജലം (jalam) is the Sanskritic word that turns up in compounds and formal writing, നീര് (neer) means water in the sense of juice or sap as well, and കമലം (kamalam) is primarily the lotus, with water only as a poetic extension.