Malayalam word senses marked with topical category "Symbols"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Diacritical marks, Numeral symbols
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Word senses with this category
Total 37 word senses
- ഀ (Character) This character is mostly restricted to grantha script texts for transcribing Sanskrit and Prakrits. In it the normal anusvara ം represents gemination of the next consonant and this anusvara represents an actual linguistic anusvara.
- ഁ (Character) This character denotes the chandrabindu found in other brahmic scripts and cognates with ँ; it nasalises the preceding vowel. It was used to transcribe Sanskrit and Prakrit texts and isnt used nativly in Malayalam.
- ഻ (Character) Like the chandrakala and circular virama, the vertical bar virama was used to delete the inheret vowel from the consonant but it was used between 1700s to 1860s (possible even before) in loanwords while circular virama in native words at the same time and chandrakala in later times.
- ഻ (Character) The bar virama was placed directly above the letter while chandrakala and circular virama at the top right. In older attestations it was allowed to cut through the consonant.
- ഻ (Character) Bar virama + letter later evolved into the chillu letters.
- ഼ (Character) Like the chandrakala and vertical bar virama, the circular virama was used to delete the inheret vowel from the consonant but it was used between 1700s to 1860s in native words while vertical bar virama in loanwords at the same time and chandrakala in later times.
- ് (Character) ചന്ദ്രക്കല (candrakkala). Malayalam diacritic for virama; it is used to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
- ്യ (Character) A Malayalam diacritic for യ (ya) called കീയക്കൂട്ടം or വീച്ചിൽ, when appended to a constant, it can indicate a conjunct consonant followed by /ja/ or palatalization in some cases.
- ്ര (Character) A Malayalam diacritical mark for ര (ra) called കേരക്കൂട്ടം or കേറക്കൂട്ടം, when appended to a constant, it can indicate a conjunct consonant followed by /ra/.
- ്ല (Character) A Malayalam diacritical symbol for ല (la), called കേലക്കൂട്ടം or കേളക്കൂട്ടം, when appended to a consonant it can indicate a conjunct constant followed by ല (la).
- ൎ (Character) In the traditional orthography, a dead consonant r before a consonant sometimes takes an above-base form, known as a dot reph, which looks like a short vertical line or a dot. Generally, a chillu-r (ർ) is used instead of a dot reph in the reformed orthography. In writing it was sometimes confused with the vertical bar virama ഻ but they are used for different purposes.
- ൘ (Numeral) ¹⁄₁₆₀, fraction one divided by one-hundred-and-sixtieth.
- ൙ (Numeral) ¹⁄₄₀, one fortieth.
- ൚ (Numeral) ³⁄₈₀, three eightieths. (archaic)
- ൛ (Numeral) ¹⁄₂₀ (one-twentieth). The fraction one twentieth.
- ൜ (Numeral) ⅒, one tenth.
- ൝ (Numeral) ³⁄₂₀, three twentieths.
- ൞ (Numeral) one fifth, ⅕.
- ൦ (Numeral) 0 (പൂജ്യം (pūjyaṁ))
- ൧ (Numeral) 1 (ഒന്ന് (onnŭ))
- ൨ (Numeral) 2 (രണ്ട് (raṇṭŭ))
- ൩ (Numeral) 3 (മൂന്ന് (mūnnŭ))
- ൪ (Numeral) 4 (നാല് (nālŭ))
- ൫ (Numeral) 5 (അഞ്ച് (añcŭ))
- ൬ (Numeral) 6 (ആറ് (āṟŭ))
- ൭ (Numeral) 7 (ഏഴ് (ēḻŭ))
- ൮ (Numeral) 8 (എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ))
- ൯ (Numeral) 9 (ഒമ്പത് (ompatŭ))
- ൰ (Numeral) 10 (പത്ത് (pattŭ))
- ൱ (Numeral) 100 (നൂറ് (nūṟŭ)). Old Malayalam number for one hundred
- ൲ (Numeral) 1000 (ആയിരം (āyiraṁ)). Archaic Malayalam number for one thousand
- ൳ (Numeral) ¼, കാൽ (kāl), one quarter
- ൴ (Numeral) ½, അര (ara), one half
- ൵ (Numeral) ¾, മുക്കാൽ (mukkāl), three quarters. (archaic)
- ൶ (Numeral) ¹⁄₁₆, മാകാണി (mākāṇi), one sixteenth. (archaic)
- ൷ (Numeral) ⅛, അരക്കാൽ (arakkāl), (one eighth).
- ൸ (Numeral) ³⁄₁₆, മുണ്ടാണി (muṇṭāṇi), (three sixteenths).
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