Wiktionary:About Malayalam

Contribute

 * Help:How to edit a page
 * See mw:Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods and mw:Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input methods/ml-transliteration for learning how to input Malayalam script letters.
 * Titles of Malayalam entries should always be in Malayalam script
 * Entry layout explained
 * English entry guidelines
 * Appendix:Glossary
 * Also contribute Malayalam entries to Wikidata Lexemes: Lexicographical data/Malayalam. Malayalam is a focus language of Wikidata Lexographical data. Volunteer there too!
 * English Wiktionary should have entries for all Malayalam words that exist in Malayalam language. The definitions and descriptions should be given in English. Title should be in Malayalam script.

Entry name
Titles of Malayalam entries should always be in Malayalam script, not a transliteration in English (that is, a romanization). e.g., Use "ചെറുനാരങ്ങ" as entry name, not "ceṟunāraṅṅ" or "cherunaranga"

The name of the entry is that of the word or phrase that you are defining.

See Appendix:Unicode/Malayalam for Malayalam letters

The basics

 * 1) Language header - The start of any Malayalam entry needs to start off with a header that explains that the entry is a Malayalam entry. The header should look like this: ==Malayalam==
 * 2) Part of speech header - After the language header, add a space and then add the part of speech header, which tells what part of speech the entry is describing. The header should look like this: === ===
 * 3) The headword line - The headword line is the line directly underneath the part of speech header. In the headword line, depending upon which part of speech the entry is using should be a template that looks like this:  or.
 * 4) Definition or translation - Two lines below the headword line is where the definition or English translation of the Malayalam word you are writing an entry for goes. Most entries will follow the translation scheme of entries, however, not all of them will.  This is where you write what the Malayalam word means in English.
 * 5) Labels:Insert to add label to a definision. for term label

An example
The following is an example:

Noun

 * 1)

The entry for the Malayalam word has the following markup code.

Noun

 * 1) science

A more in-depth example
This includes more information than the simple example above, including:
 * 1) Etymology,
 * 2) pronunciation,
 * 3) antonyms and related terms.

There are other possible headers for use. See WT:ELE for more information regarding these.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)

Verb

 * 1)

Preferred order of headers
The part of speech section will often include simple translation(s) into English in place of definitions, but there may be subsections.

Following is the preferred sequence for these standard sections:

Declension
(for nouns, adjectives and pronouns)

Conjugation
(for verbs)

Etymology
To enter etymologies, use, which langcode being the ISO code of the language. Other etymology templates are, , and ; see their respective documentations. Use to mark and request other people to fill it.

Transliteration
Malayalam transliteration should be followed using the guide at Malayalam transliteration. Scientific transliteration is preferred.

Malayalam translations of English words
Malayalam words will appear in the Translations sections of English words. In general, only the lemma form of the Malayalam translation should be given.

The template should be used, it speeds up entry and will enable any later, global changes in format to be made.

Maintenance

 * See Category:Malayalam entry maintenance
 * Monitor recent edits: en:wt, ml:wt, wd:ld

Pronunciations

 * See Malayalam and w:Help:IPA/Malayalam
 * ന can represent both dental nasal /n̪/ or alveolar nasal /n/ depending on the word. Alveolar nasal (archaic ഩ) occurs in words like പന, മാനം, ഇനം, etc., while dental nasal sound occurs for words like നന്ദി, നാല്. Letter ൻ represents vowel-less alveolar nasal consonant.
 * റ represents voiced alveolar trill /r/ when alone, and voiceless alveolar plosive /ta/ (archaic ഺ) when occurring as റ്റ and ന്റ (ന്‌റ)
 * ് (chandrakkala) is used either to (1) suppress inherent vowel, (2) to conjoin two letters, and (3) as "samvruthokaram"( ു് ) or half-u at the end of a word
 * Use to mark and request other people to add the pronunciation.

Sandhi

 * Sandhi (rules of combining)

Resources
Main page: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Malayalam/Resources
 * Wikisource:ml:Category:നിഘണ്ടുക്കൾ Public Domain dictionaries in digital text format.
 * Malayalam to English (2) Gundert 1872
 * Malayalam to English Bailey 1846
 * English to Malayalam Bailey 1849
 * Grammar- Malayalam to English Peet 1841
 * Commons: scanned PDFs of dictionaries
 * Malayalam to English Laseron 1856
 * glossary.kerala.gov.in & books (downloadable) English to Malayalam
 * https://scert.kerala.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/science-subjects.pdf Malayalam Technical Dictionary by Government of Kerala
 * https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/variyar/ M. I. Warrier (copyrighted, but free to view) Malayalam to English dictionary. Use R:ml:Warrier:2008 for citing
 * https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/gundert/ Searchable Gundert dictionary. Use R:ml:Gundert for citing
 * Dictionary- Malayalam-Malayalam (Shabdatharavali). Digitized version of PD book in digital text format.
 * http://malayalamwordnet.cusat.ac.in Malayalam Wordnet by Cochin University (slow)

Other information on Malayalam

 * Category:Malayalam language
 * Category:Requests concerning Malayalam
 * Requested entries (Malayalam)
 * Category:Malayalam templates