Four in Malayalam
Four is നാല് (naalu), the plain number used for counting, telling the time and giving prices. The combining form ചതുര് (chathur) appears inside compound words, where it adds the sense of four or fourfold. Children learn the first; the second belongs to Sanskritic vocabulary.
Most common translation
Four, the number 4.
വീട്ടിൽ നാല് മുറിയുണ്ട്.
veettil naalu muriyundu.
The house has four rooms.
All Malayalam words for “four”
- നാല് (naalu) — Four, the number 4.
- ചതുര് (chathur) — Four, four - fold.
- അഗ്നിതപസ് (agnithapasu) — Penance with fire on all the four sides and the sun overhead.
- അന്ത്യയുഗം (anthyayugam) — The last of the four Ages.
- ഉപായം (upaayam) — Means for achieving an end, scheme, trick, cunning, one of the four tactics, to win over the enemy, strategy, tactics, contrivance, device.
- ഋഗ്വേദം (rigwedam) — The first of the four Vedas.
- ദിവസം (divasam) — Day, a period of twenty four hours; also a particular day.
- നാലുപാടും (nalupadum) — On all the four sides, every where around.
- നാല്ക്കാലി (naalkkali) — Anything having four legs, cattle, table, chair, etc., quadruped.
- മൃഗങ്ങൾ (mrugangal) — Animals, beasts and four footed creatures other than human beings; also livestock.
- വിലങ്ങ് (vilangu) — Fetters, handcuff, shackles, a four legged animal, (fig) obstacle.
Use നാല് (naalu) when counting and ചതുര് (chathur) only as the first part of a compound; the other entries merely mention four in passing, as ദിവസം (divasam) does for a period of twenty four hours.
Common questions
How do you say four in Malayalam?
നാല് (naalu).
What is the compound form of four?
ചതുര് (chathur), used at the front of words meaning fourfold.