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kolam

noun

kolam is a noun meaning “Synonym of rangoli” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-L-A-M, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kolam is kolams.

What does kolam mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of rangoli.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of kolam

  • kolams plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is kolam?

Kolam appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does kolam come from?

Borrowed from Tamil கோலம் (kōlam).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).