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
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) — Middle, centre, waist, back.
- മദ്ധ്യ (maddhya) — Middle, intermediary, average, mediocre, neutral.
- മദ്ധ്യം (maddhyam) — The middle, waist, abdomen, the inside, medium, principle in beating time.
- മധ്യ (madhya) — Mid; middle, belonging to the middle part of a place, a time or a span.
- അര (ara) — Half, waist, the middle part.
- അരക്കെട്ട് (arakkettu) — Middle part of the body, loins.
- ഇടത്തരം (idathram) — Mediocre, middle class, of the average type, neither superior nor inferior.
- ഇടത്തരക്കാരന് (idatharakkaaran) — The middle class man, ordinary, common man.
- ഇടനിര (idanira) — Partition, middle wall.
- ഇടനിലക്കാരന് (idanilakkaaran) — Middle man, broker, agent.
- ഇടമുറിയുക (idamuriyuka) — Interrupt, stop in the middle of sth. break/breach.
- ഇടയിൽ (idayil) — Between, in the middle of two things or people (used as a postposition after the noun).
- ഉച്ചഭക്ഷണം (ucchabhakshanam) — Lunch. The midday meal; food eaten in the middle of the day.
- കേന്ദ്രം (kendram) — Center, the middle point of something; also a place where a service is given.
- നടുവില് (naduvil) — Among, in the middle.
- മദ്ധ്യപ്രദേശം (maddhyapradesham) — Waist, middle part, back the state called 'Madhya Pradesh' in India.
- മാദ്ധ്യമ (maaddhyama) — Situated at the centre or middle.
- മാദ്ധ്യമം (maaddhyamam) — Middle path/ method or tool, medium, means of communication.
- മാറുന്ന (maarunna) — Becoming, turning into, growing to be (present participle of maaruka, to change); changing; becoming different, in the middle of a change; the noun change is maattam.
- മുട്ട് (muttu) — Knee, the joint in the middle of the leg.
- ഹേതു (hethu) — Cause, motive, tactics, pretext, middle term of a syllogism.
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.