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chillu

chillu noun: a type of letter used in Malayalam which does not have an inherent vowel, used to represent a pure consonant without the use of a virama.

Noun

chillu (plural chillus)

  1. A type of letter used in Malayalam which does not have an inherent vowel, used to represent a pure consonant without the use of a virama.
    • There are five chillus currently in use: ൺ (ṇ), ൻ (ṉ), ർ (ṟ), ൽ (l) and ൾ (ḷ). There are also four archaic ones: ൿ (k), ൔ (m), ൕ (y) and ൖ (ḻ).
    Synonyms:
    chillaksharam

chillu meaning in Malayalam

chillu in Malayalam

chillu; chillaksharam
ചില്ലക്ഷരം cillakṣaraṁ, ചില്ല് cillŭ

Synonyms of chillu

Forms of chillu

pluralchillus

Origin of chillu

Borrowed from Malayalam ചില്ല് (cillŭ).

Questions about chillu

What does chillu mean?
Chillu means a type of letter used in Malayalam which does not have an inherent vowel, used to represent a pure consonant without the use of a virama.
What is chillu in Malayalam?
Chillu in Malayalam is ചില്ലക്ഷരം (cillakṣaraṁ), ചില്ല് (cillŭ). See Chillu meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is chillu?
Chillu is a noun.
What is the plural of chillu?
The plural of chillu is chillus.

Words near chillu in the dictionary

  1. chills out
  2. chills to the bone
  3. chillsome
  4. chillstep
  5. chillth
  6. chillu
  7. chillul Hashem
  8. chillum
  9. Chillumbrum
  10. chillumchee
  11. chillumchees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chillu (page history and authors); ചില്ലക്ഷരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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