Capacity in Malayalam
Capacity in the sense of what someone or something is able to do is ശേഷി (sheshi). Technical writing uses it for the capacity of a machine, a plant or a reservoir. When the sense is the space inside a container, വ്യാപ്തം (vyaaptham) is the right word.
Most common translation
Strength, power, capacity, ability, competence.
ഈ ടാങ്കിന്റെ ശേഷി ആയിരം ലിറ്ററാണ്.
ee tankinte sheshi ayiram littaranu.
The capacity of this tank is a thousand litres.
All Malayalam words for “capacity”
- ശേഷി (sheshi) — Strength, power, capacity, ability, competence.
- പോരിമ (porima) — Sufficiency, strength, capacity, ability.
- ശക്തി (shakthi) — Strength, cleverness, firmness, vigour, capacity, goddess Lakshmi, Parvathi, Kaali, power of a deity personified as his wife, lance.
- ശക്യത (shakyatha) — Ability, possibility, practicability, capacity.
- യഥാശക്തി (yathaashakthi) — In accordance with one's ability or capacity.
- വ്യാപ്തം (vyaaptham) — Volume; the amount of space a thing fills, its capacity; the loudness of sound is usually called voliyam and a book in a set is a vaalyam.
- സാധ്യത (saadhyatha) — Potential, possibility, likelihood; the capacity for something to happen or develop.
ശേഷി (sheshi) is capability and വ്യാപ്തം (vyaaptham) volume; ശക്തി (shakthi) and പോരിമ (porima) are strength, ശക്യത (shakyatha) and സാധ്യത (saadhyatha) possibility, and യഥാശക്തി (yathaashakthi) means as far as one's capacity allows.
Common questions
How do you say capacity in Malayalam?
ശേഷി (sheshi) for ability or capability.
What about the capacity of a tank?
വ്യാപ്തം (vyaaptham), the word for volume.