Fine in Malayalam
Fine in the sense of good or satisfactory is നല്ല (nalla), the all-purpose Malayalam adjective for good. It always comes before the noun and the double l is held. To answer that something is fine or all right, speakers use another short word.
Most common translation
Fine, good, well, satisfactory; good enough in quality; nice, good, pleasant, kind.
ഇന്ന് കാലാവസ്ഥ നല്ലതാണ്.
innu kaalaavastha nallathaanu.
The weather is fine today.
All Malayalam words for “fine”
- നല്ല (nalla) — Fine, good, well, satisfactory; good enough in quality; nice, good, pleasant, kind.
- പിഴ (pizha) — Slip, oversight, error, injustice, livelihood, atonement, prostitution, adultery, fine.
- ശരി (shari) — Right, correct, true; also used by itself to mean all right; okay, all right, fine; also correct.
- അരങ്ങ് തകര്ക്കുക (arangu thakarkkuka) — Make a fine public performance, present a grand show.
- കലകൾ (kalakal) — Arts, the fine arts such as music, dance and painting; also the arts as a field of study.
- ക്ലാസിക് (klasik) — Classic; of lasting quality, time tested, recognised as a fine example.
- നേരിയത് (neriyath) — Fine cloth.
- പട്ടുനൂല് (pattunool) — Silk thread, fine thread, the fibre made by the silk worm.
- പൂട (pooda) — The down of birds, wool, fine soft hair.
- പൈന്തല് (painthal) — A darling, a fine fellow.
- മണൽ (manal) — Sand. The fine sand of a river bank or beach.
- മികച്ച (mikacha) — Excellent, super fine, foremost, superior.
നല്ല describes quality; ശരി is the fine that means all right or agreed, പിഴ is a fine you pay, and നേരിയത് is fine in the sense of thin cloth.
Common questions
How do you say fine in Malayalam?
നല്ല (nalla) when fine means good.
What about a traffic fine?
That is പിഴ (pizha), money paid as a penalty.