Hear in Malayalam
കേൾക്കുക (kelkkuka) covers both hearing a sound and listening to someone, since Malayalam does not split the two the way English does. The first vowel is long, kel-kkuka. Its past form, heard, is കേട്ടു (kettu).
To listen, to hear, to pay attention to what is said; listening. Paying attention to a sound; hearing someone with care.
അമ്മ പറയുന്നത് കേൾക്കൂ.
amma parayunnathu kelkkoo
Listen to what mother says.
All Malayalam words for “hear”
- കേൾക്കുക (kelkkuka) — To listen, to hear, to pay attention to what is said; listening. Paying attention to a sound; hearing someone with care.
- ശ്രവിക്കുക (shravikkuka) — Hear, listen to, heed.
- അതിശയകരമായ (athishayakaramaaya) — Amazing, astonishing, wonderful to see or hear.
- അശ്രുതി (ashruthi) — Unable to hear, deaf.
- കേട്ടു (kettu) — Heard, caught a sound, came to hear of something; the past form of kelkkuka.
- പ്രകാശം (prakasham) — Light, clearness, lustre, commentary, development, expansion, chapter, mirror, knowledge, what a character in a play says loudly for everyone to hear (not as an 'aside').
- സുന്ദരമായ (sundaramaya) — Beautiful, lovely; pleasing to see or hear.
കേൾക്കുക (kelkkuka) is the everyday verb with കേട്ടു (kettu) as its past, while ശ്രവിക്കുക (shravikkuka) is formal and devotional, used of hearing scripture or music. അശ്രുതി (ashruthi) means unable to hear, and സുന്ദരമായ (sundaramaya), അതിശയകരമായ (athishayakaramaaya) and പ്രകാശം (prakasham) only mention hearing inside their wider meanings.
Common questions
How do you say hear in Malayalam?
കേൾക്കുക (kelkkuka) means both to hear and to listen.
How do you say I heard it?
Use the past form കേട്ടു (kettu), which means heard or came to hear of.