Authority in Malayalam
അധികാരം (adhikaram) covers authority and power, the right to decide and to command, and it is as common in politics as in family talk. Say a-dhi-kaa-ram. Related words name the person who holds it and the limits within which it runs.
Most common translation
Power authority, responsibility, title, claim, chapter, department, paragraph.
ഈ തീരുമാനം എടുക്കാന് എനിക്ക് അധികാരമില്ല.
ee theerumanam edukkan enikku adhikaramilla.
I have no authority to make this decision.
All Malayalam words for “authority”
- അധികാരം (adhikaram) — Power authority, responsibility, title, claim, chapter, department, paragraph.
- ആധികാരികത (aadhikarikatha) — Authority, state of being authoritative.
- ആസ്പദം (aaspadam) — Basis, support, authority.
- അധികാരകേന്ദ്രീകരണം (adhikarakendreekara) — Concentration (centralization) of power (authority).
- അധികാരങ്ങൾ (adhikaarangal) — Powers; the authority or rights held by a person, office or court; the sense of forces or abilities is shakthikal.
- അധികാരപരിധി (adhikaraparidhi) — Jurisdiction, limit of authority, range of authority.
- അധികാരി (adhikari) — Person in authority, boss, village officer.
- അധികൃത (adhikritha) — Authorized, having authority, official.
- ആജ്ഞാസ്വരം (aajnaaswaram) — Tone of command or authority.
- നിയോഗം (niyogam) — Appointment, entrustment, order, instruction, use, effort, delegation (of authority), sexual relation between the wife of a sterile person and a relative to beget children.
- ന്യായാധികാരം (nyaayaadhikaaram) — Judicial power or authority, administration of justice.
- പരമോന്നത (paramonnatha) — Supreme, highest in rank or authority, topmost.
- ഭരണാധികാരി (bharanadhikari) — Ruler, administrator, ruling authority.
- വികേന്ദ്രീകരണം (vikendreekaranam) — Decentralization (eg. decentralization of power or authority).
അധികാരം is authority as power, ആധികാരികത (aadhikarikatha) is authoritativeness in the sense of reliability, അധികാരി (adhikari) is the person in authority, and അധികാരപരിധി (adhikaraparidhi) is the limit of that authority, jurisdiction.
Common questions
How do you say authority in Malayalam?
അധികാരം (adhikaram).
What do you call a person in authority?
അധികാരി (adhikari), an officer or boss.