Lakshadweep (Lak) Mal: ലക്ഷദ്വീപ് lakṣadvīpu ‘Hundred Thousand Islands’ [Laccadives] From Skt/Mal: lakṣam/lakh, ‘one hundred thousand’; and Skt: dvīp, ‘island’. Lakhs (100,000) and crores (10 million) are still used in the Indian counting system. Lakshadweep fails to...
‘Forked (Island)’ -Island/Capital, Lakshadweep Mal: kavaram, ‘prong(ed)’, ‘branch(ed)’, ‘fork(ed)’, ‘(separated into) channels’. This is a fairly good description of the island which splits the sea into two channels in the middle. The island...
