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ഉന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തു-
ന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്തുന്താളെയുന്തു്

(According to legend, the very first couplet in
മഞ്ജരി inspired by which കൃഷ്ണഗാഥ was written.)

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Two ഴs

 ഴ being a native letter of our alphabet, is present in a number of Malayalam words.

But do you know a word that has two ഴs appearing together?

It is ഏഴേഴു = ഏഴ് + ഏഴ് = seven seven, literally = seven times seven = 49.

In theory, we can now construct words with any number of consecutive ഴs in this manner. E.g.

ഏഴേഴേഴു = 7 cubed = 213.

Do you know any other words with two or more ഴs in sequence? 

3 comments:

Rajesh said...

വ്യാഴാഴ്ച്ച
പഴമൊഴി

Rajesh said...

വ്യാഴാഴ്ച
പഴമൊഴി

Vinod said...

Thanks for the comment!

Yes, വ്യാഴാഴ്ച has two ഴ's next to each other (At least we can say 1-1/2). പഴമൊഴി has two ഴ's but they are not next to each other.