Average in Malayalam
ശരാശരി (sharaasari) is the everyday Malayalam for average, used both for the arithmetic mean and for anything middling. School teachers use it for marks, newspapers for rainfall, and ordinary speakers for a film that was neither good nor bad. The four syllables are all short and even: sha-raa-sa-ri.
Average, the mean value; also ordinary or middling.
ക്ലാസിന്റെ ശരാശരി മാർക്ക് നല്ലതാണ്.
klaasinte sharaasari maarkku nallathaanu
The class average mark is good.
All Malayalam words for “average”
- ശരാശരി (sharaasari) — Average, the mean value; also ordinary or middling.
- മദ്ധ്യ (maddhya) — Middle, intermediary, average, mediocre, neutral.
- ഇടത്തരം (idathram) — Mediocre, middle class, of the average type, neither superior nor inferior.
sharaasari is the word you want for average in almost every context; idathram points at the middling or middle-class type of thing, and maddhya is a stem meaning middle or intermediate rather than a number.
Common questions
How do you say average in Malayalam?
Average is ശരാശരി (sharaasari).
Can sharaasari describe a person as well as a number?
Yes. Used before a noun it means ordinary or unremarkable, so a sharaasari performance is a merely average one, not a calculated mean.