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chillus

chillus is the plural of chillu.

Meaning of chillu

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

Questions about chillus

What is chillus the plural of?
Chillus is the plural of chillu.

Words near chillus in the dictionary

  1. chillumchee
  2. chillumchees
  3. chillums
  4. chillun
  5. chilluns
  6. chillus
  7. chillwave
  8. chilly
  9. chilly bin
  10. chilly bins
  11. chilly climate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chillus (page history and authors); chillu (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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