Writing in Malayalam

എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu) is writing in the broad sense, from the act itself to a letter and to the look of a person's hand. Village speech also used it for schooling, since learning to write was the whole of it.

Most common translation

എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu)

Letter, writing, epistle, drawing or sketching.

മുത്തശ്ശന്റെ എഴുത്ത് ഇന്നലെ കിട്ടി.

muthashante ezhuthu innale kitti.

Grandfather's letter arrived yesterday.

All Malayalam words for “writing”

രചന (rachana) is composition, the literary act, and ആലേഖനം (aaleganam) and ആലേഖ്യം (aalekhyam) slide between writing and painting, which is why their glosses mention pictures.

Common questions

How do you say writing in Malayalam?

Writing is എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu).

How do you say in writing?

Formal Malayalam uses the word for a written document, ലിഖിതം (ligitham); in speech people stay with എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu).