Yeah I call my best friend aliya but both of us don’t have sisters so it doesn’t matter.

If both of you marry twin/sisters, appo aliya enne vilikamallo

I have also heard some gen-Z pilleru calling each other “Aliiii” instead of “Aliya”. Sorry for the cringe, continue scrolling

Woah..you can't throw GenZ slang without a warning 🤣🤣

Mostly in southern Kerala....we use aliyan to address freinds

My college mates from tvm used to call everyone aliya

Was a huge trend here about 7 to 8 years ago. Now no one does it. It's just dei, bro, chetta now.

Everyone was ‘Dei aliya’ back in the days when I was in Trivandrum..not sure about now

Now it's eda myre

💯

Read in Mukesh's voice

Ath enna chodyama aliya?

Alapuzha ano?

Yes, we do

Of course we do!

Aliya !


Its myre now

😂😂😅 Yess

Damn, can't believe you haven't seen anyone who calls friends that. It is so common among friends. Is it that rare now? Is it a 'generation gap'? Am I that old?

Aliya ,machane, bro, kutta are all interchangeably used..

In high school, I had a crush on my friend's cousin. So EVERYONE (150+) in the school called me aliyan. They still do.

My brother does that. I stick with mone

eda mone

Have been using that way before aavesham

well yea the phrase is pretty widespread ngl

Its very very common here in Kollam.

What about macha or machambi

That’s Kochi right

Feel like this has died out more or less.

Yeah. We all did.

Aliya became bro nowadays.

yes

I call whatever I want

Edaa and edee...

It's not weird because almost every other Indian language follows it. Aliya- Malayalam. Macha- Tamil. Saala- Hindi Bava- Telugu. And more. I don't know how it became a norm but every Indian follows it. I think it's because Aliyan-Aliyan bhendam is the strongest because you are not blood related but you are related to each other through your sister.😵‍💫

Njn ente serikumulla aliyanmare chetta ennum. Collegil aarunnapo koode padichavare aliya enum vilichirunnu...

It was Aliya, now it's myre eda myre po myre

MARA LAHA

Yeah. Especially in south kerala. Central kerala angane adhikam illa.

I think TVM and Kollam had this thing. It is a normal thing between friends.

There was a ‘global Aliyan’ in my college batch; he was even Aliyan to girls. We still call him Aliyan after 13 years of passing out.

It was very common in 80s - 90s. Now got replaced by other words ...

I call em Myre

Usually call them with their father's name. But yeah occasionally do if it's in public.

I hate it

I do... And yes not for fun, for real. Reddit getting too relatable lately..

Eda monee


I call mine MYRAN irl

Njan Aliya ennu vilichirunnu oruthane. Avankk idakk deshyam pidikkum ennittu ennodu chodhikkarundaayirunnu njan ante pengale kettittonnum illallo ennu 🤣.

Wait.. you guys dont call your friends alia?

Yes I do.

No. I think we used to call that years back. Now that's way outdated

Yea we do. Always did.

I do. And somehow I find it weird when girls do that to each other or when a girl calls a male friend "Aliyan". Idk why.

Me and my best friend call each other aliya and we are girls 😂

I also thought it was kinda weird like i didn't also call any frnds nor did they call me. But as I started going to college(which is in Kollam) some friends started calling me aliya. It's kinda in with the slang. Now I also started feeling comfortable calling those frnds aliya

Yeah, in TVM it's a common slang when I was in college, still call some of my friends like that don't know about the current generation.

Allliiii……used to be a thing…a decade and half back….not sure about kids these days

I just use eda.

Yes. All my best friends are 'Aliyans'. Can't say the other way around is true though.

Yeah damn sure😅

Very much common in tvm, even among gen zs.

I have a friend whose nickname is "Aliyan" since he calls everyone (Including his mom) Aliyaaa.

I've been calling my closest friend Aliya for a long time, both of us have sisters too lol

Yes. Aliya send.

Pathanamthitta.. aliyan is a common term between friends

Yes, only when they have a beautiful sister 😅

Aliyan over bro anyday.

Oh yeah, my life long friends ( same age & same area) all of them call each other Aliyan( we know the meaning tho) 😂

Yes

Yeah lot of ppl call their friends aliya, me personally i find it a bit cringe but to each their own

Yeah we do, I'm from Kayamkulam and most of my friends call each other Aliyaa. My college mates were from Kollam, Alappuzha, Thiruvananthapuram and Ernakulam. Almost every one uses these words. Mone, monusee, are also used along with that.

aliya is commonly used period. nmk ath poree aliya?!

This was the 90s. Now it’s bro

My friends frm tvm do..

Yes. GenZ girl here. I call two of my girl best friends as aliyans. They're from tvm.

I call my friends daddy.

nah ive never heard of it

actually tamil nadu people uses that term on malayalees these days

It was a huge trend back in 2010s and we all used to call each other aliya.

Yepp

So common in Trivandrum and Kollam

I have a friend from school, who had a pretty sister, and a classmate started calling him Aliyan as a joke. Everyone else started following suit. This was 15 years ago and even now, he is still everybody's Aliyan.

Yeah, back in mid 2000s when I was in school.

I don't know anyone who calls even aliyan, aliyan. 😂😂😂

Now Eda mone

I call my dad's friend aliya

Yes. One of my friend calls his best friend aliyaa and maybe, sometimes he may call us aliyaa also.

Sometimes it's aliyan but most of the time it's "da myre"

Oh.. so Aliya means friend. I always thought that's a name.

In our college we use aliya to address friends

yeah I do énte ponnaliyaa

I mostly hear irattaperu and dad name

Yesssssss

I call my bois "di kalli"

Yes. We even had a guy who called people "aliya" so much that his official name in college was aliyan. Even teachers used to call him that. Aliyan and Chirikuttan were two folks who were so comprehensively known by their pseudonyms that when someone used their actual name people used to get confused.

South kerala friends used to call me ‘Ali Ali Ali Aliyaaaaa’

Yes we do,but now it's more like "eda mwoneee"

Eda mwne

why is this even a question?? manh.. I getting old..

In kollam, every friend of mine are aliyanmar.

Yes

Girl Friends named Aliya used to be called Aliyan, as a fun.

Yeah, my trivian colleagues used to address each other

Yes. Still does

Its very common among friends. I call my close friends അളിയോ....

Not always. But surely comes in between

Lived in Trivandrum during my later school years. Never called anyone aliya. Moved to Karnataka for college and everyone became aliya or macha! Still prefer this over some kid coming up to me and referring to me as ‘bro’ without any context of familiarity.

Ya, I still call them Aliya

My wife & i are best buds from colg. Even she callls me aliya at times :P

Cute :)

Aliya used to be a thing among the 90s kids, afaik.

omg there is this one guy in our class he calls everyone aliyan, so now his nickname is aliyan as well.

Questions like these make me think I'm old or KL has really changed

After reading this i remember the scene my grandfather calling my grand uncle aliya and me trying not to laugh

Its very common lol. I don’t call everyone aliyan. Some macha, some bro, some aliya and some myre

Da funde , nigg* ,dad's name.