Difficulty in Malayalam
Difficulty is പ്രയാസം (prayasam) in everyday Malayalam, used for anything that costs trouble or strain. Say it pra-yaa-sam, with the long middle syllable. People use it for a hard task, an awkward situation and the effort a thing demands.
Difficulty, trouble, haste, exertion, effort.
ഈ കണക്ക് ചെയ്യാൻ പ്രയാസം ഉണ്ട്.
ee kanakku cheyyaan prayasam undu.
There is some difficulty in doing this sum.
All Malayalam words for “difficulty”
- പ്രയാസം (prayasam) — Difficulty, trouble, haste, exertion, effort.
- ഏടാകൂടം (edaakoodam) — Difficulty, trouble, precarious situation, thorny problem, Catch 22 situation.
- ക്ലേശം (klesham) — Difficulty, grief, affliction, strain, distress.
- കുഴപ്പം (kuzhappam) — Trouble, difficulty, imbroglio, defect, confusion, disorderliness.
- ഞെരുക്കം (nerukkam) — Pressure, difficulty, straits, distress, financial straits.
- ആയാസം (ayasam) — Effort, labour, difficulty, fatigue.
- പണി (pani) — Work, service, occupation, means, difficulty.
- ശ്രമം (shramam) — Effort, labour, exertion, toil, weariness, difficulty, hazard, exercise (physical), culinary work connected with feast, etc.
- എളുപ്പത്തില് (eluppathil) — Easily, without difficulty.
- ഒപ്പിക്കുക (oppikkuka) — Manage with difficulty, fulfil somehow, (sl.) deceive.
- ഒരുവിധം (oruvidham) — Somehow, with great difficulty.
- കഷ്ടപ്പാട് (kashtappaadu) — Struggle, hardship, hard effort against difficulty; an organised fight or campaign is poraattam.
- ഗുരുത്വം (guruthwam) — Gravity, state of being a preceptor, magnitude, substantiality, difficulty in digesting, respect, esteem.
- ദുരൂഹത (duroohatha) — Difficulty in guessing or conjecturing.
- നിഷ്പ്രയാസം (nishprayaasam) — Easily, without difficulty.
- പുലിവാല് (pulival) — Tiger's tail; (idm.) a difficulty which one can neither avoid nor face (like holding a tiger by its tail around a tree).
- പൊറുതികേട് (poruthiked) — Disgust, annoyance, dissatisfaction, difficulty in earning a living, domestic quarrel or worry.
- ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടുള്ള (buddhimuttulla) — Difficult, hard, not easy to do; the noun buddhimuttu means difficulty.
- മുട്ടുക (muttuka) — Be in straits or difficulty, be hindered or obstructed, collide with, knock against, be stopped.
- വലയുക (valayuka) — Be in trouble or difficulty, be worried, be distressed.
- വിക്ക് (vikk) — Stammering, stuttering, difficulty in uttering words (sounds) in a connected manner.
- വിമ്മിട്ടം (vimmittam) — Difficulty in breathing, talking distress, affliction.
പ്രയാസം is general difficulty, ക്ലേശം (klesham) adds grief and affliction, കുഴപ്പം (kuzhappam) is a mess or confusion, ഞെരുക്കം (nerukkam) is pressure and money trouble, ഏടാകൂടം (edaakoodam) is a thorny fix, and ആയാസം (ayasam) with ശ്രമം (shramam) stress exertion.
Common questions
How do you say difficulty in Malayalam?
പ്രയാസം (prayasam) is the usual word for difficulty or trouble.
Which word suits financial difficulty?
ഞെരുക്കം (nerukkam), which covers straits and pressure of that kind.