Increasing in Malayalam
Increasing is expressed by വര്ദ്ധന (varddhana) in Malayalam. The word serves as growth or increment and also as the quality of growing, which makes it common in writing about prices, numbers and population.
Most common translation
Growing, increasing; increase, increment.
ശമ്പള വര്ദ്ധന എല്ലാവരെയും സന്തോഷിപ്പിച്ചു.
shambala varddhana ellaavareyum santhoshippichu.
The salary increase made everyone happy.
All Malayalam words for “increasing”
- വര്ദ്ധന (varddhana) — Growing, increasing; increase, increment.
- ശ്രുതി (shruthi) — Hearing, news, rumour, sound, ear, scripture, (mus.) background tune, increasing the tone.
വര്ദ്ധന (varddhana) is the general word for growth, while ശ്രുതി (shruthi) belongs to sound and pitch and means increasing only in the musical sense of raising a tone.
Common questions
How do you say increasing in Malayalam?
വര്ദ്ധന (varddhana) is the word, covering both growth and increment.
Why is shruthi listed?
Because it carries the musical sense of increasing the tone; for ordinary growth the two are not interchangeable.