"மலையாளம்" meaning in Tamil

See மலையாளம் in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /mɐlɐɪ̯jaːɭɐm/ Audio: ta-மலையாளம்.ogg
Etymology: From மலை (malai, “mountain, hill”) + ஆள் (āḷ, “rule, reign, region”, compare ஆழ் (āḻ)) + -அம் (-am, “of which, belonging”), can be translated as 'vernacular of the mountain regions.' Ultimately from Middle Tamil. Etymology templates: {{com|ta|மலை|ஆள்|-அம்|pos2=compare <i class="Taml mention" lang="ta">ஆழ்</i> (āḻ)|t1=mountain, hill|t2=rule, reign, region|t3=of which, belonging}} மலை (malai, “mountain, hill”) + ஆள் (āḷ, “rule, reign, region”, compare ஆழ் (āḻ)) + -அம் (-am, “of which, belonging”), {{inh|ta|ta-mid|-}} Middle Tamil Head templates: {{ta-proper noun}} மலையாளம் • (malaiyāḷam) Inflection templates: {{ta-decl|num=sg}} Forms: malaiyāḷam [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], மலையாளம் [nominative, singular], - [nominative, plural], மலையாளமே [singular, vocative], - [plural, vocative], மலையாளத்தை [accusative, singular], - [accusative, plural], மலையாளத்துக்கு [dative, singular], - [dative, plural], மலையாளத்துக்காக [benefactive, singular], - [benefactive, plural], மலையாளத்துடைய [error-unrecognized-form, singular], - [error-unrecognized-form, plural], மலையாளத்தின் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], மலையாளத்தில் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], மலையாளத்திடம் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], மலையாளத்தோடு [error-unrecognized-form, singular], மலையாளத்துடன் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], மலையாளத்தால் [instrumental, singular], - [instrumental, plural], மலையாளத்திலிருந்து [ablative, singular], - [ablative, plural], மலையாழம் [alternative, obsolete]
  1. the Malayalam language
    Sense id: en-மலையாளம்-ta-name-YKNPq3kt Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Tamil entries with incorrect language header, Languages, Linguistics Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 67 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 83 17 Disambiguation of Tamil entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of Languages: 92 8 Disambiguation of Linguistics: 100 0
  2. (archaic or rare) Malabar Tags: archaic, rare
    Sense id: en-மலையாளம்-ta-name-gOhJTya0 Categories (other): Tamil terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Tamil terms with redundant script codes: 37 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: மலையாளி (malaiyāḷi), கேரளம் (kēraḷam)

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for மலையாளம் meaning in Tamil (5.1kB)

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  "title": "மலையாளம்",
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  "title": "மலையாளம்",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Tamil dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (7cef23e and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.