ലേശുക [ˈleːɕʊga] - to affect
വർക്കത്തുകെട്ട [ʋərˈkət̪ɯgɛʈa] - awkward, graceless, unfortunate, unclean, ugly
നിസർഗ്ഗം [n̪ɪˈsərgəm] - character, nature, gift, defecation
ചൂളം [ˈt͡ʃuːɭəm] - whistle (I recognize this word but almost never have a context to use it)
ശൂളം [ˈɕuːɭəm] - same as above, but the variant of this term that my parents use
ഭോഷൻ [ˈbʱoːʃɛn ~ˈpʰoːʃɛn] -
(according to my dictionary) stupid fellow, fool, blockhead, dunce;
(according to my dad) willfully stupid man
ഭോഷത്തം [ˈbʱoːʃət̪əm]/
ഭോഷത്തരം [ˈbʱoːʃət̪əɾəm]/
ഭോഷത്തനം [ˈbʱoːʃət̪ɛnəm] - foolishness, stupidity, folly, idiocy (or I guess willful idiocy, according to my dad)
വിരഹം [ʋiˈɾəhəm] - separation (I keep thinking this has something to do with 'waiting' because I associate it with a song about a woman who misses her lover)
dEhiN wrote:nijk wrote:sweep, swipe, wipe, weep
Huh, I never thought about how similar sounding they all are and I can totally see why you'd mix them up. If anything, I think swipe and wipe could be thought of as having similar meanings at least in terms of the physical action one might take to do both verbs. (Yes hook-up apps have used swipe in a different sense, but prior to that, the most common sense was probably the stealing one).
Yeah, I think of all of these except
weep to be similar in meaning, and
sweep and
swipe are even etymologically related
(not cognates strictly speaking since the Proto-Germanic ancestor of sweep is morphologically more complex than that of swipe though they both involve the same root)! I myself wouldn't know any of these if not for the fact that I use
wipe often enough in everyday situations, have seen especially
sweep and
weep in literature a lot, and specifically associate
swipe with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IvG9_V4Pcg