Wooden in Malayalam
Malayalam has no single adjective for wooden; it says the equivalent of made of wood, the word for wood plus a participle. The entries gathered here are wooden objects rather than the adjective, among them കോണി (koni) and its variant കോവണി (kovani), a ladder or a wooden staircase.
Ladder, wooden stairs, bier.
ചുവരില് ചാരി കോണി വെച്ചു.
chuvaril chaari koni vechu.
The ladder was leaned against the wall.
All Malayalam words for “wooden”
- കോണി (koni) — Ladder, wooden stairs, bier.
- അമ്മാനം (ammanam) — Wooden ball thrown up and down as a kind of game.
- കോവണി (kovani) — Wooden stairs, ladder.
- നിര (nira) — A row, military array, multitude, wooden wall, series.
- പെൻസിൽ (pensil) — Pencil, a wooden stick with lead inside used for writing and drawing.
- പൊന്തി (ponthi) — Club, stout rod, wooden sword, impartial observer, arbitrator.
- പോസ്റ്റുകൾ (postukal) — Posts. Messages or pictures put up on social media; also jobs or wooden poles.
- മരക്കയില് (marakkayil) — Wooden ladle.
- മരപ്പലക (marappalaka) — Wooden boar.
- മരപ്പെട്ടി (marappetti) — Wooden box.
- വീപ്പ (veeppa) — Wooden cask or barrel.
പെൻസിൽ (pensil) is a pencil and പോസ്റ്റുകൾ (postukal) is posts in the social media sense, both in this list only because their definitions happen to mention wood.
Common questions
How do you say wooden in Malayalam?
With a phrase meaning made of wood. There is no one-word adjective, so a wooden ladder is simply കോണി (koni).
What is ammanam?
അമ്മാനം (ammanam) is the wooden ball tossed and caught in a traditional Kerala game of skill.