Like in Malayalam
To like something is ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുക (ishtappeduka), the verb for finding a thing or a person pleasing. Learners meet it early because it covers liking food, films and people alike. Its dictionary form ends in uka.
Most common translation
Like, to find something pleasing; to be fond of a thing or person.
എനിക്ക് ഈ പാട്ട് ഇഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടു.
enikku ee paattu ishtappettu.
I liked this song.
All Malayalam words for “like”
- ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുക (ishtappeduka) — Like, to find something pleasing; to be fond of a thing or person.
- ബോധിക്കുക (bodhikkuka) — Know, like, realize, perceive, become satisfied.
- സദൃശ (sadrusha) — Equal, like, similar, resembling.
- അന്നനട (annanada) — Graceful manner of walking like that of a swam.
- അപ്രകാരം (aprakaram) — Like that, thus, in that way.
- ആനക്കള്ളന് (anakkallan) — A big thief, thief who will steal even big things like elephants.
- ഇഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടു (ishtappettu) — Liked; the past of ishtappeduka, to like something or find it pleasing.
- കയ്പുള്ള (kaypulla) — Bitter, having a sharp unpleasant taste like bitter gourd or medicine; harsh in flavour.
- ജൈവകീടനാശിനി (jaivakeedanaashini) — Organic insecticide (like neem).
- നാടകീയമായ (naadakeeyamaaya) — Dramatic, striking and sudden, like something in a play.
- നാട്ടുവൈദ്യം (naattuvaidyam) — Indigenous system of medical treatment like Ayurveda.
- പതിഞ്ഞ (pathinja) — Slovenly, slow, fixed, flat (like nose).
- പുലിവാല് (pulival) — Tiger's tail; (idm.) a difficulty which one can neither avoid nor face (like holding a tiger by its tail around a tree).
- പുളിയുള്ള (puliyulla) — Sour, having a sharp acidic taste like lemon or raw mango; tart.
- മടുമലര്മിഴി (madumalarmizhi) — Woman with eyes like blossomed flowers, a beautiful woman.
- മത്താപ്പ് (mathappu) — Blue light, light like moonshine, a kind of firework producing blue light.
- മൃഗീയം (mrigeeyam) — Beast like, brutish, beastly.
- യാന്ത്രികജീവിതം (yaanthrikajeevitham) — Mechanical life, life that goes on like a machine, an artificial, unemotional life.
- യുഗം (yugam) — A pair, period, an age or long period of time, one of the Ages like Dwaapara or Kaliyuga, an age of some special significance (like Stone Age).
- വാര്ത്താമാധ്യമം (vaarthaamaadhyamam) — News medium (like news paper, radio, television, etc.).
- വിചിത്രമായ (vichithramaaya) — Weird; strange, odd, not like the usual.
- വില്ലിക്കുക (villikkuka) — Bend like a bow, get intoxicated.
- വേണം (venam) — Want, to need, to wish for; Malayalam says enikku venam, I want; should, ought to, need to; on a verb the obligation is usually shown by the ending anam, as in pokanam, should go; needs, requires, must have; Malayalam says venam, it is needed; wants, needs, would like to have; in Malayalam the person wanting takes the dative and the thing wanted is the subject; needed, required, wanted; Malayalam says venam, it is needed, and inflects it for tense as venamayirunnu for was needed; wanna, want to; Malayalam says venam for wanting something, as in enikku chaaya venam, I want tea.
- വ്യസനം (vyasanam) — Any of the wrong doings like sorrow, danger, misery, sin, excessive passion, drinking (liquors), gambling, hunting, vice, etc.
- സായുധ (saayudha) — Armed, carrying weapons; used in set phrases like saayudha sena, armed forces.
ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുക (ishtappeduka) is the verb to like, while സദൃശ (sadrusha) is like in the sense of similar and അപ്രകാരം (aprakaram) means like that or in that way.
Common questions
How do you say like in Malayalam?
ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുക (ishtappeduka) when like is the verb; സദൃശ (sadrusha) when it means similar.
How do I say like that?
അപ്രകാരം (aprakaram), meaning in that manner.