Yama in Malayalam
കാലന് (kalan) is the Malayalam name for the god of death, the figure who arrives to take a life, and it is alive in warnings and curses. A grim or menacing person gets called it too.
Most common translation
Yama (personification of death), dark person, cripple, lame person.
കാലന് വരുന്നത് ആരും അറിയില്ലെന്ന് പഴമക്കാര് പറയും
kalan varunnathu aarum ariyillennu pazhamakkaar parayum
The elders say no one knows when Death will come.
All Malayalam words for “yama”
- കാലന് (kalan) — Yama (personification of death), dark person, cripple, lame person.
- കാലം (kalam) — Pert, to time, pert.Yama (death personified), killing, black.
- കാലപാശം (kalapasham) — The rope with which Yama (Death) ensnares his victims, extreme calamity, fatal danger.
കാലം (kalam) is primarily time and season and reaches Yama only in old poetry, while കാലപാശം (kalapasham) is the noose with which he snares his victims.
Common questions
How do you say Yama in Malayalam?
Yama is കാലന് (kalan).
Is kalan used in ordinary speech?
Yes, in threats and in exaggeration, and of anything that behaves like death itself.