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cherub meaning in Malayalam

മാലാഖ

/ˈt͡ʃɛ.ɹəb/

cherub in Malayalam: മാലാഖ, ദെെവദൂതൻ, പുണ്യാളൻ, കുഞ്ഞുമാലാഖ. In English, cherub means a winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

Malayalam words for cherub

angel, seraph
മാലാഖ, ദെെവദൂതൻ, പുണ്യാളൻ
baby, infant, toddler
കുഞ്ഞുമാലാഖ, ശിശു, കുഞ്ഞ്, വാവ, അരുമക്കുുഞ്ഞ്, ഓമനക്കുഞ്ഞ്

English meaning of cherub

  1. noun A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
  2. noun A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.
  3. noun In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.
  4. noun A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.

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Questions about cherub in Malayalam

What is the meaning of cherub in Malayalam?
Cherub in Malayalam is മാലാഖ, ദെെവദൂതൻ, പുണ്യാളൻ, കുഞ്ഞുമാലാഖ.
cherub എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
Cherub: മാലാഖ, ദെെവദൂതൻ, പുണ്യാളൻ, കുഞ്ഞുമാലാഖ.
What does cherub mean in English?
Cherub means a winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

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Malayalam words from the E.K. Kurup corpus on Olam: cherub (dataset and license). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: cherub (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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