Wish in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “wish”

• ഇച്ഛ (icha) — Wish, desire, will, longing.
• ഇച്ഛിക്കുക (ichikkuka) — Wish, desire, long for.
• മനോരഥം (manoradham) — Wish, desire, longing, the topic one wishes, imagination.
• അനുഗ്രഹിക്കുക (anugrahikkuka) — Bless, wish, well.
• ആഗ്രഹിക്കുക (aagrahikkuka) — Desire, wish, long for, crave.
• ആശ (asha) — Hope, wish, desire, longing.
• ആകൂതം (aakootham) — Intention, meaning, opinion, wish, aim, objective.
• ആഗ്രഹം (aagraham) — Tightpulling, grasping, desire, wish, intense longing.
• മനോഗതി (manogathi) — Attitude, longing, desire, opinion, wish.
• നിർബന്ധിക്കുക (nirbandhikkuka) — Forced, past of force; made someone do something against their wish; compelled or pressed.
• യഥാകാമം (yathaakaamam) — As per one's wish, optionally.
• വേണം (venam) — Want, to need, to wish for; Malayalam says enikku venam, I want; should, ought to, need to; on a verb the obligation is usually shown by the ending anam, as in pokanam, should go; needs, requires, must have; Malayalam says venam, it is needed; wants, needs, would like to have; in Malayalam the person wanting takes the dative and the thing wanted is the subject; needed, required, wanted; Malayalam says venam, it is needed, and inflects it for tense as venamayirunnu for was needed; wanna, want to; Malayalam says venam for wanting something, as in enikku chaaya venam, I want tea.

The verbs are separate: ഇച്ഛിക്കുക (ichikkuka) and ആഗ്രഹിക്കുക (aagrahikkuka) both mean to wish or long for, and ആശ (asha) leans towards hope; birthday and festival wishes use another word altogether, not listed here.