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Borrowed from Sanskrit वचन (vacana).
വചനം • (vacanaṁ)
- word
- sermon
- sentence
- (grammar) number (example: ഏകവചനം (ēkavacanaṁ), ബഹുവചനം (bahuvacanaṁ))
- Gundert, Hermann (1872) “വചനം”, in A Malayalam and English dictionary, Mangalore, London: C. Stolz; Trübner & Co.