Deficiency in Malayalam
Deficiency is most plainly കുറവ് (kurav) in Malayalam, the ordinary noun for a shortage, lack or defect. It is used of a vitamin deficiency as readily as of a shortage of water. Speech and writing share it.
Most common translation
Deficiency, shortage, defect, lack.
ഇന്ന് ജോലി കുറവാണ്.
innu joli kuravaanu.
There is less work today.
All Malayalam words for “deficiency”
- കുറവ് (kurav) — Deficiency, shortage, defect, lack.
- കുറച്ചില് (kurachil) — Deficiency, shortage, disgrace, ignominy, dishonour.
- പോരായ്മ (porayama) — Shortage, deficiency, defect, dishonour, disgrace.
- ക്ഷതം (kshatham) — Wound, injury, sore, deficiency, ruin, danger.
- വൈകല്യം (vaikalyam) — Defect, flaw, deficiency, maimedness, disability.
- ഹാനം (haanam) — Renunciation, abandoning, deliverance, loss, deficiency, escape, danger, defeat, prowess, valour, strength.
- അന്യൂന്യ (anyoona) — Without deficiency, perfect.
- കണ (kana) — Rickets, children's disease caused by vitamin deficiency.
kurachil and porayama add a note of disgrace to the shortage, kshatham is a wound or injury, vaikalyam a bodily defect or disability, haanam a loss, and anyoona means without deficiency, perfect.
Common questions
How is deficiency said in Malayalam?
Say കുറവ് (kurav) for a deficiency or lack.
Which word means without any deficiency?
That is അന്യൂന്യ (anyoona), perfect and lacking nothing.