Grasp in Malayalam
To grasp an idea is ഉള്ക്കൊള്ക (ulkkolka), literally to take something inside oneself. It covers understanding, accepting and containing, and reads as measured, educated Malayalam. For grasping with the hand, speakers switch to a verb of holding.
Most common translation
Grasp, understand, bear, experience, contain.
പാഠത്തിന്റെ ആശയം കുട്ടികള് ഉള്ക്കൊണ്ടു.
paadathinte aashayam kuttikal ulkkondu.
The children grasped the idea of the lesson.
All Malayalam words for “grasp”
- ഉള്ക്കൊള്ക (ulkkolka) — Grasp, understand, bear, experience, contain.
- പിടിത്തം (piditham) — Hold, grasp, withholding, cramp, wrestling, liking.
- അഗ്രാഹ്യ (agraahya) — Not easy to grasp, not easily understandable, incomprehensible.
- ധാരണ (dhaarana) — Understanding; a grasp of how something works, knowledge of a matter, an informal agreement between people.
- പിടിക്കുക (pidikkuka) — To catch, to take hold of, to grasp or capture.
- പിടിമുറുക്കം (pidimurukkam) — Grip, tightness of grasp or grip, firm grip.
- മനസ്സിലാക്കുക (manassilaakkuka) — Understand, to grasp the meaning; to realise or comprehend something.
ulkkolka is mental grasp, pidikkuka and piditham cover the physical hold or grip, dhaarana is the grasp one has of a subject, and agraahya marks what cannot be grasped at all.
Common questions
How do you say grasp in Malayalam?
ഉള്ക്കൊള്ക (ulkkolka), for grasping a meaning.
What if you mean grasping with the hand?
Then pidikkuka, to take hold of, is the verb, and piditham is the grip itself.