Keeps in Malayalam
This list holds no general verb for keeps in the sense of retains. The nearest is തുടരുന്നു (thudarunnu), continues or keeps happening, which suits keeps on doing something. For keeping a thing in hand there is പിടിക്കുന്നു (pidikkunnu), holds or grips.
Most common translation
Continues; goes on without stopping, keeps happening, carries on from before.
മഴ ഇപ്പോഴും തുടരുന്നു.
mazha ippozhum thudarunnu.
The rain continues even now.
All Malayalam words for “keeps”
- തുടരുന്നു (thudarunnu) — Continues; goes on without stopping, keeps happening, carries on from before.
- ഇൻക് (ink) — Inc; short for Incorporated, written after a company name; Malayalam keeps the English form and calls the firm a kampani.
- പിടിക്കുന്നു (pidikkunnu) — Holds, grips, keeps in the hand; the present form of pidikkuka.
- പിന്തുടരുന്നു (pinthudarunnu) — Follows; goes after or behind someone, keeps to a rule or advice, comes next in order.
- പോലീസ് (polees) — Police, the force that keeps law and order; a policeman.
- ബാങ്ക് (baanku) — Bank. A place that keeps and lends money.
- മണിക്കൂറുകൾ (manikkoorukal) — Hours, periods of sixty minutes (after a number Malayalam usually keeps manikkoor singular).
- മിനിറ്റ് (minittu) — Minutes, units of time of sixty seconds each; after a number Malayalam keeps the singular form minittu; minute, sixty seconds, a short while.
- മൗനി (mouni) — One who keeps quiet or silence, a 'muni' or ascetic.
- സൂക്ഷിക്കുക (sookshikkuka) — Keeping, holding or storing something safely; also looking after and preserving; keeps. Holds or stores something; looks after it and does not give it away.
The remaining options are nouns that merely contain keeps in their English wording, such as ബാങ്ക് (baanku), which keeps money, and പോലീസ് (polees), which keeps order.
Common questions
How do you say keeps in Malayalam?
No plain equivalent appears here; തുടരുന്നു (thudarunnu) fits keeps on, and പിടിക്കുന്നു (pidikkunnu) fits keeps hold of.
Which of these words means bank?
ബാങ്ക് (baanku), the place that keeps and lends money.