Error in Malayalam
The everyday word is തെറ്റ് (thett), with a hard final t and no vowel after it, and Malayalam speakers use it for everything from a wrong answer in a test to a mistake in a document. It is also the word a teacher writes next to a wrong sum, so a learner meets it very early.
Error, mistake, fault, miscalculation, shooting with a catapult, slipping.
കണക്കിൽ ഒരു ചെറിയ തെറ്റ് വന്നു.
kanakkil oru cheriya thett vannu.
A small mistake crept into the sum.
All Malayalam words for “error”
- തെറ്റ് (thett) — Error, mistake, fault, miscalculation, shooting with a catapult, slipping.
- തെറ്റുക (thettuka) — Error, stumble, slip, quarrel, shoot, splash.
- അബദ്ധം (abadham) — Mistake, error.
- കയ്യബദ്ധം (kayyabaddham) — Slip, error, accident.
- പിശക് (pishaku) — Mistake, error, fault, flaw, obstruction; (idm.) a quarrelsome person.
- പ്രമാദം (pramadham) — Fault (caused by carelessness), error, mistake, inadvertence, intoxication, ostentation, pomp, grandeur.
- പിഴ (pizha) — Slip, oversight, error, injustice, livelihood, atonement, prostitution, adultery, fine.
- ഭ്രമണം (bhramanam) — Whirling, revolving, revolution, journey, deviation, error, blunder.
- ദൃഷ്ടിദോഷം (drushtidosham) — Faulty scrutiny, error in observation, effect of 'evil eye'.
തെറ്റ് (thett) is the general everyday noun, പിശക് (pishaku) is what you see for a technical or computer error, and അബദ്ധം (abadham) suggests a careless slip. പിഴ (pizha) and പ്രമാദം (pramadham) are bookish, തെറ്റുക (thettuka) is the verb form, and ദൃഷ്ടിദോഷം (drushtidosham) is narrow, meaning an error of observation.
Common questions
How do you say error in Malayalam?
Say തെറ്റ് (thett). It covers a mistake, a fault and a miscalculation alike.
Is there a separate word for a computer or technical error?
പിശക് (pishaku) is used that way, and you will see it in software messages and in print where English would say error or flaw.