Cultivate in Malayalam
To cultivate a plant is നട്ടുവളര്ത്തുക (nattuvalarthuka) in Malayalam, a compound verb meaning to plant and raise. It is the natural choice for growing trees, vegetables or a garden, and it is used figuratively too, for cultivating a habit.
നട്ടുവളര്ത്തുക (nattuvalarthuka)
Grow, cultivate.
മുറ്റത്ത് രണ്ടു തുളസിച്ചെടി നട്ടുവളര്ത്തുക.
muttathu randu thulasichedi nattuvalarthuka.
Plant and raise two basil shrubs in the yard.
All Malayalam words for “cultivate”
- നട്ടുവളര്ത്തുക (nattuvalarthuka) — Grow, cultivate.
- ഇറക്കുക (irakkuka) — Drive out, put down, unload, cultivate the field, gulp down, swallow, cure poisoning of snakebite, publish (look, magazine).
നട്ടുവളര്ത്തുക is planting and bringing something up. ഇറക്കുക has a huge spread of meanings, from unloading to swallowing, and cultivating a field is only one narrow use inside that list, so it is not a safe general word here.
Common questions
How do you say cultivate in Malayalam?
Use നട്ടുവളര്ത്തുക (nattuvalarthuka), to plant and raise something.
Can it be used about habits?
Yes. Speakers apply it to cultivating a habit or an interest, the same way English stretches the farming image to people.