Words similar to malayalam
Example sentences for: malayalam
How can you use “malayalam” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It is no exaggeration when I say that I prefer English to my native tongue, Malayalam, the language spoken by the people of Kerala, a southern state in India, the language which has entered the pages of the Guinness Book of Records as the longest palindromic language in the world.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
Begum `high-ranking Muslim lady' derives ultimately from Eastern Turkic, while cowrie `a type of sea shell' comes from Tamil or Malayalam kavati via Hindi kauri or kaudi . Two Hindi loanwords have their origin in Europe: ayah `native maid or nurse,' the Hindi version of Portuguese aia , and pulton or pultun `infantry regiment,' adapted from paltan , the Hindi version of English battalion .
Other ancient Turkic languages, as Arabic and Malayalam in India, were sometimes written using Syriac (Semitic) characters.
I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.
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