സംസാരം

Probably from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how do you explain the shift in meaning?”)

• IPA^(key): /sɐmsäːɾɐm/

സംസാരം • (saṁsāraṁ)

1. talk, speech, conversation
2. discussion
3. a talk about something, rumor

   Synonyms: വർത്തമാനം (vaṟttamānaṁ), പറച്ചിൽ (paṟaccil)

4. rumor; general talk or news.

   നാട്ടിൽ അങ്ങനെ ഒരു സംസാരം ഉണ്ട്.

   nāṭṭil aṅṅane oru saṁsāraṁ uṇṭŭ.

   There is such a talk (rumor) in the village.

5. condition; state of being

   എന്താണ് നിങ്ങളുടെ സംസാരം?

   entāṇŭ niṅṅaḷuṭe saṁsāraṁ?

   How are you? / What is your condition?

6. (archaic) wife and children; family.
7. (literary, religion) worldly life; the cycle of birth and death.

• Warrier, M. I. (2008), “സംസാരം [saṁsāraṁ]”, in Malayalam-English Dictionary (in Malayalam), 22nd edition, Kottayam: DC Books