Wind in Malayalam
Wind is കാറ്റ് (kattu), the word for a breeze or a blow of air. Say kattu with a doubled t and the stress on the first syllable. It is what people say when they talk about the wind picking up, with the compound for a gale built on the same word.
Most common translation
Wind. The wind or breeze; a strong wind is kodunkattu.
പുറത്ത് നല്ല കാറ്റ് ഉണ്ട്.
purathu nalla kattu undu.
There is a strong wind outside.
All Malayalam words for “wind”
- കാറ്റ് (kattu) — Wind. The wind or breeze; a strong wind is kodunkattu.
- അനിലന് (anilan) — Wind, wind-god, vishnu.
- മാരുതം (maarutham) — Wind, air, oxygen, breathing.
- വാതം (vaatham) — Wind, rheumatism, gout.
- ആശുഗന് (aashugan) — Air, wind.
- മാരുതന് (maaruthan) — Air, wind.
- പ്രവഹം (pravaham) — Flow, current, wind, water vessel.
- കാറ്റാടി (kattadi) — Whirling toy-fan, paper toy which whirls in the wind, Casuarina tree or whip tree, long sails (propellers) that turn on a central shaft.
- കാലാവസ്ഥ (kaalaavastha) — Weather, the state of the air and sky at a place; rain, heat and wind together. In everyday speech it also covers climate; climate; the usual weather of a place over a long period. The same word also serves for day to day weather.
- തെന്നല് (thennal) — Southern wind, zephyr, breeze, slipping, sliding.
- വീശല് (veeshal) — Blowing of wind, etc., casting (the net), winnow, whirl, wave (eg. the hand, as to bid farewell).
അനിലന് (anilan), മാരുതം (maarutham), ആശുഗന് (aashugan) and മാരുതന് (maaruthan) are Sanskritic and poetic names for wind and air, and വാതം (vaatham) means wind in the body, which in medicine is rheumatism.
Common questions
How do you say wind in Malayalam?
Wind is കാറ്റ് (kattu).
Why is vaatham listed as wind?
In traditional medicine wind is one of the humours of the body, so the word came to mean rheumatic complaints caused by it.