Middle in Malayalam

The middle of anything is നടു (nadu), a short word that also means the waist, the centre of the body. People use it for the middle of a road, a field or a night. Two syllables, na-du, with a retroflex d.

Most common translation

നടു (nadu)

Middle, centre, waist, back.

മുറിയുടെ നടുവില്‍ ഒരു മേശയുണ്ട്.

muriyude naduvil oru meshayundu.

There is a table in the middle of the room.

All Malayalam words for “middle”

നടു (nadu) is the everyday middle, മദ്ധ്യ (maddhya), മദ്ധ്യം (maddhyam) and മധ്യ (madhya) the Sanskritic forms used in compounds and formal writing, and അര (ara) and അരക്കെട്ട് (arakkettu) the waist and loins.

Common questions

How do you say middle in Malayalam?

നടു (nadu), the middle or centre.

Which form appears in compounds?

മദ്ധ്യ (maddhya), as in middle-level or intermediate terms.