Sage-Tips

How many slangs are there in Kerala?

Roughly there are over 100 slang variations in Malayalam. Each and every slang is beautiful of its own. Any person making fun of other slang is doing it due to lack of understanding about how languages and slangs work.

What country speaks Malayalam?

India
Malayalam is spoken mainly in India, where it is the official language of the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep.

Is Oola a bad word?

Anything or anyone can be oola, a comment, a person or an act. An apt translation for ‘loser’, the word which used to mean a ‘disaster’, became a byword for a failed person after the movie Amar Akbar Anthony, where the character Durantho, played by Pashanam Shaji, always expects the worst.

How many types of slang are there?

There are five different types of slang such as fresh and creative type, flippant type, imitative type, acronym type, and clipping type. Meanwhile, to determine the functions of slang word, the theory from Hymes (1989) about Ethnography of Speaking was used as guideline.

What are some awesome Malayalam words to add to your vocabulary?

Here’s a list of 15 awesome Malayalam words you should definitely add to your vocabulary. Usage: Ayyo! What the hell is this? Usage: Wassap machaan? Usage: That was a kidullan shot! Usage: There’s no solution to your kirmi kadi , is there? Usage: You are such a pottan . You even copied the other fellow’s roll number?

Did you know Malayalam has a history of assimilating foreign loan words?

Malayalam has always had a history of assimilating loan words from various foreign tongues. This has been true even in some of the common everyday slang words that Malayalees use in day to day conversations. Some of the most interesting ones that caught my eye are below. The name came from, believe it or not, a German warship called SMS Emden.

Where did the Malayalam words Klaver and Harten come from?

The answer is simple – these cards and games reached Kerala before the British and are variants of their Dutch names – Klaver is dutch for clubs and Harten is dutch for hearts! These words are recent entrants into the Malayalam vocabulary.

What is the meaning of the Malayalam word ‘KD’?

The term is also used in Tamil in the same sense. So it probably came to Malayalam via Tamil as this newspaper article suggests. This one is very straight forward. KD is the abbreviation for ‘Known Depredator’, a term used historically in the Indian Penal Code for a petty criminal who conducts his crimes regularly.