Each in Malayalam
Each one, meaning each person taken separately, is അവനവന് (avanavan). Malayalam uses it in sayings about everyone minding their own affairs. Say a-va-na-van, all syllables short and even.
Most common translation
Each, each person, everyone.
അവനവന്റെ കാര്യം അവനവൻ നോക്കണം.
avanavante kaaryam avanavan nokkanam.
Each person must look after his own affairs.
All Malayalam words for “each”
- അവനവന് (avanavan) — Each, each person, everyone.
- എല്ലാ (ellaa) — Every, each, all; the noun then takes the suffix um, as in ellaa divasavum, every day.
- അതത് (athathu) — Each and every.
- അന്നന്ന് (annannu) — Each day, everyday.
- അളിയാ (aliya) — Dude; the casual word friends use to address each other in Kerala, roughly man or mate.
- അവരവര് (avaravar) — Each one of them or us.
- ആഴ്ചകൾ (aazhchakal) — Weeks, periods of seven days each.
- ഉം (um) — And; in Malayalam it is the suffix um added to each of the joined words rather than a separate word.
- ഉം ഇല്ല (um illa) — Nor; Malayalam has no single word for it and adds um to each item with a negative verb, as in chaayayum illa kaappiyum illa.
- ഒന്നിന് (onninu) — Per, for each, for every one (Malayalam puts it after the unit, as in kilo onninu, per kilo).
- ഓരോരുത്തരും (ororutharum) — Every one, each one.
- കടികുടുക (kadikuduka) — Bite each other, quarrel.
- തമ്മില് (thammil) — Between each other, among (themselves, yourselves, etc.), mutually.
- തിക്കുക (thikkuka) — Press forward, crowd, elbow each other.
- നിരക്കുകൾ (nirakkukal) — Rates; the charges fixed for each unit of something, also rates in the sense of proportion.
- മിനിറ്റ് (minittu) — Minutes, units of time of sixty seconds each; after a number Malayalam keeps the singular form minittu; minute, sixty seconds, a short while.
- രണ്ടും അല്ല (randum alla) — Neither; not one and not the other of two; Malayalam says randum alla or adds um to each item with a negative verb.
- രാജ്യങ്ങൾ (raajyangal) — Countries, nations, lands each with its own government; the singular is raajyam; nations; countries, independent states together with their peoples.
- ലീഗ് (leeg) — League, a set of teams that play each other, an association of members.
അവനവന് is each person individually, എല്ലാ (ellaa) is every or each before a noun that then takes the suffix um, and ഒന്നിന് (onninu) is per or for each unit, placed after the measure.
Common questions
How do you say each in Malayalam?
അവനവന് (avanavan) for each person, and എല്ലാ (ellaa) for each or every before a noun.
How do you say per kilo?
Put ഒന്നിന് (onninu) after the unit, as in kilo onninu.