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Ettu Nombu (Malayalam: എട്ടു നോമ്പ്) or the Eight Day Lent of St Mary, is a solemn remembrance of virgin-mother of Jesus Christ, for the St Thomas Christians in Kerala, India. The custom is observed in the Oriental Orthodox ( Jacobite and Indian Orthodox ) and Eastern Catholic ( Syro-Malabar and Syro Malankara Catholic ...
German is not the only language to have a specific name for male virginity; in French, a male virgin is called a "puceau". The Greek word for "virgin" is parthenos (παρθένος, see Parthenon). Although typically applied to women, like English, it is also applied to men, in both cases specifically denoting absence of sexual experience.
Sarvavijnanakosam, known in English as the Malayalam Encyclopaedia, [1] is a general encyclopedia in the Malayalam language. It is intended to be "a compendium of world knowledge", [2] covering over 32,000 topics. [3] The first volume was published in 1972, [4] and in 2015 sixteenth volume was published. [5]
The first Malayalam book ever to be printed is Samkṣepavedārththham authored by Clemente Peani and printed in Rome in 1772. [4] Cherupaithangal is a collection of seven stories for children translated from English by the British missionary Benjamin Bailey and printed in C. M. S. Press, Kottayam in 1824.
The first Malayalam translation of the Kural text, and the very first translation of the Kural text into any language, appeared in 1595. [2] Written by an unknown author, it was titled Tirukkural Bhasha and was a prose rendering of the entire Kural, written closely to the spoken Malayalam of that time. [3]
Malayalam WordNet is a crowd sourced project. IndoWordNet is publicly browsable, but it is not available to edit. Malayalam WordNet allows users to add data to the WordNet in a controlled crowd sourcing manner. Either a set of experts or users itself could review the entries added by other members which helps in maintaining consistent data ...
Parayi Petta Panthirukulam, is a popular folktale in Kerala.According to this folktale, Vararuchi, one of the nine wise men of Emperor Vikramaditya’s (57 BCE- 78 AD) court married Panchami, a girl belonging to Paraya, a lower caste.
Old Malayalam, or Early Malayalam, the inscriptional variety found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 13th century CE, is the earliest attested form of Malayalam language. [1] [2] The language was employed in several official records and transactions (at the level of the medieval Chera kings as well as the upper-caste village temples). [1]