Metres in Malayalam
Neither listed word means metres. കാതം (katham) is an old Indian league of roughly sixteen kilometres, and സെന്റ് (sentu) is a cent, a Kerala land measure of about forty square metres. The metre itself keeps its English name in Malayalam use.
Most common translation
An Indian league (about 16 kilo metres).
അടുത്ത ഗ്രാമം ഒരു കാതം അകലെയാണ്.
adutha graamam oru katham akaleyaanu.
The next village is a katham away.
All Malayalam words for “metres”
- കാതം (katham) — An Indian league (about 16 kilo metres).
- സെന്റ് (sentu) — Cent, a hundredth part of a dollar; in Kerala also a unit of land area of about forty square metres.
katham measures distance in leagues and sentu measures land area; both appear here only because metres are used to explain them.
Common questions
How do you say metres in Malayalam?
Not with these words. Malayalam borrows the English name of the unit, while katham and sentu are quite different measures.
How big is a sentu?
About forty square metres, and it is the usual unit for small plots of land in Kerala.