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
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 (number) — Number, serial number of a court- case.
- ലക്കം (lakkam) — Number, symbol.
- സംഖ്യ (samkhya) — Number, counting, sum, knowledge, logic, comprehension, arriving at meanings by means of authoritative dicta.
- അക്കം (akkam) — Numerical figure, number, digit.
- കോട്ട (kotta) — Fort, fortress, a measure of cereals, number.
- അക്ഷരി (akshari) — Having a certain number of letters, rainy season, season of plenty.
- അക്ഷി (akshi) — Eye, the number two.
- അങ്ങാടിതെരുവ് (angaditheruvu) — Bazaar or street with a number of shops close together, market street.
- അഞ്ച് (anchu) — Five, the number 5.
- അനേകം (anekam) — Many, a number of.
- അഭിന്നകസംഖ്യ (abhinnaka samkhya) — Irrational number.
- അവിഭാജ്യസംഖ്യ (avibhajya samkhya) — Indivisible number.
- ആണ് (aanu) — Are, is, am; the present form of the verb to be; the same form for every person and number.
- ആയിരം (aayiram) — Thousand, the number 1000.
- ആറ് (aaru) — Six, the number 6.
- എട്ട് (ettu) — Eight, the number 8.
- ഏകവചനം (ekavachanam) — A single word, the singular number.
- ഏഴ് (ezhu) — Seven, the number 7.
- ഒന്ന് (onnu) — One, the number 1; oru is used before a noun, as in oru pusthakam, one book.
- ഒറ്റസംഖ്യ (ottasamkhya) — Odd number.
- ഒൻപത് (onpathu) — Nine; the number 9, one more than eight.
- കുറഞ്ഞത് (kuranjathu) — Least, the smallest amount; at least, as a minimum; minimum; the least amount or number, the lowest limit, at least.
- കൊയ്യുക (koyyuka) — Reap, harvest, cut a number of things together.
- ക്രമനമ്പര് (kramanambar) — Serial number.
- ഗുണം (gunam) — Function, duty, quality, goodness, number of times, wick, string, thread, bow-string, strand, secondary function or duty, virtue, property (of a thing).
- ഘടകങ്ങൾ (ghadakangal) — Factors, the elements or causes that shape a result; also the factors of a number; elements; the parts that make up a whole, components, factors; in chemistry the word is moolakangal.
- ജനസംഖ്യ (janasamkhya) — Population, the number of people living in a place.
- തവണ (thavana) — Times, occasions, the number of times something happens.
- താഴെയിട്ടു (thazheyittu) — Dropped; let something fall, let go of it. Also used of a price or number that came down.
- തീയതി (theeyathi) — Date; the day of the month given as a number.
- ദിവസങ്ങൾ (divasangal) — Days, a number of days.
- നവകം (navakam) — Group or multiple of the number nine.
- നാല് (naalu) — Four, the number 4.
- നൂറ് (nooru) — Hundred; the number one hundred, 100.
- ന്യൂനസംഖ്യ (nyoonasamkhya) — Negative number.
- പത്ത് (patthu) — Ten, the number 10.
- പന്ത് (panth) — Ball, playing ball, globular object, cards marked up to number ten.
- പരമാവധി (paramaavadhi) — Max. The maximum; the greatest amount, number or limit possible.
- പൂജ്യം (poojyam) — Zero; the number nought, nothing at all, none.
- പ്രായം (praayam) — Age, ages, the number of years a person has lived; age, the number of years a person has lived; the stage of life someone is at.
- മണിക്കൂറുകൾ (manikkoorukal) — Hours, periods of sixty minutes (after a number Malayalam usually keeps manikkoor singular).
- മിനിറ്റ് (minittu) — Minutes, units of time of sixty seconds each; after a number Malayalam keeps the singular form minittu; minute, sixty seconds, a short while.
- മൂന്ന് (moonnu) — Three, the number 3; three, written as the Roman numeral III; also placed after a name to mean the third.
- രണ്ട് (randu) — Two, the number 2, a pair of things.
- വചനം (vachanam) — Word, speech, talk, proverb, wise saying, pronunciation; (gram.) singular or plural number.
- ശതം (shatham) — One hundred, a large number.
- സഹസ്രം (sahasram) — Thousand, a large 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).