Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- മാംസധാരണം
- Transliteration
- mamsadharanam
- Rejected alternatives
- അവതാരം
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER use അവതാരം (avatar). The Saint Thomas Christian tradition has never used അവതാരം for the incarnation; മാംസധാരണം (“flesh-taking”) or explanatory phrasing (ദൈവം മനുഷ്യനായി, “God became man”) reflects established practice. The real risk is not that Malayalam lacks a safe word, but that a generically-trained AI system, drawing on a Malayalam text corpus dominated by non-Christian authorship, may default to അവതാരം as the statistically “natural” choice.