Number in Malayalam

Spoken Malayalam borrows the English word and says നമ്പര്‍ (number) for a phone number, house number or case number. Alongside it sits the Sanskritic സംഖ്യ (samkhya), the word for number in counting and mathematics. Both are written in Malayalam script and both are current.

Most common translation

നമ്പര്‍ (number)

Number, serial number of a court- case.

നിന്റെ ഫോണ്‍ നമ്പര്‍ തരാമോ?

ninte phone number tharaamo?

Can you give me your phone number?

All Malayalam words for “number”

നമ്പര്‍ is the everyday loan used for serial and identifying numbers, സംഖ്യ belongs to arithmetic and logic, ലക്കം is a number or issue, and അക്കം is a single digit.

Common questions

How do you say number in Malayalam?

In daily use say നമ്പര്‍ (number); for a number in mathematics say സംഖ്യ (samkhya).

What is a digit called?

A numerical figure or digit is അക്കം (akkam).