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Borrowed from Sanskrit फेन (phena)
ഫേനം • (phēnaṁ)
- (biology) vacuole of a cell
- foam, froth
- Synonyms: നുര (nura), പത (pata)
- Gundert, Hermann (1872) “ഫേനം”, in A Malayalam and English dictionary, Mangalore, London: C. Stolz; Trübner & Co.