Position in Malayalam
സ്ഥാനം (sthaanam) is position in most senses: place, rank, status and the post a person holds. It is the word in job notifications and in talk about someone's standing.
Most common translation
Place, position, status, dwelling, abode, seat, rank, title.
അവന് ജോലിയിൽ നല്ല സ്ഥാനം കിട്ടി.
avanu joliyil nalla sthaanam kitti.
He got a good position at work.
All Malayalam words for “position”
- സ്ഥാനം (sthaanam) — Place, position, status, dwelling, abode, seat, rank, title.
- ആസ്ഥാനം (aasthaanam) — Place, position, headquarters, capital, seat.
- ബഹുമതി (bahumathi) — Honour, position, recognition, title.
- ജാതി (jaathi) — Caste, kind, tribe, race, rank, position, nut-meg tree, jasmine, hearth, fire-place.
- നില (nila) — Condition, state, position, a fathom depth, (water level up to one's head), standing, camp, stature, manners, storey of a building.
- പദം (padam) — A foot, step, foot-impression, leg, word, site, mark, ray, status, position, vigour, object, floor, a line of a stanza, a song.
- പരിസരം (parisaram) — Surroundings, environment, boundary, neighbourhood, situation, position.
- ഉന്നതപദവി (unnathapadavi) — High position.
- ഉയര്ന്ന (uayarnna) — High, lofty, great, occupying high position.
- എട്ടാമിടം (ettamidam) — The eighth aspect or position, an upstart, one born in the eighth month of pregnancy.
- ഗ്രഹസ്ഥിതി (grahasthithi) — Planetary position at a particular time, relative positions of the nine planets.
- നിലകെട്ട (nilaketta) — Having lost one's position, deposed, impolite, fallen, timid, unsteady.
- നിലകൊള്ളുക (nilakolluka) — Remain, stand for, hold on to a position firmly, work steadfastly.
- പകരുക (pakaruka) — Change position, transfer, pour from one vessel to another, spread from one to another, transmit, infect, mix, copy.
- പദവിക്കാരന് (padavikkaaran) — One who occupies a high position.
- പോസ്റ്റ് (post) — Post, a message put up online; also posted mail and a job position.
- ഭ്രംശം (bhramsham) — Deviation, fall from a high position, downfall, decline, blunder.
- മുൻ (mun) — Former, previous, ex-, holding a position earlier but not now; pre-, before, earlier than; Malayalam uses mun as a prefix, as in munkootti, beforehand.
- മേന്മ (menma) — Superiority, greatness, high position.
- മേൽ (mel) — Upon, on, on top of; in Malayalam it comes after the noun, as mesha mel, upon the table; upper; the one above, higher in position. It is normally joined to the noun that follows.
- വാസ്തു (vaasthu) — Site or position of a house, house.
nila is condition or state, aasthaanam is a seat or headquarters, and parisaram is surroundings, so none of them substitutes for position as rank or place.
Common questions
How do you say position in Malayalam?
സ്ഥാനം (sthaanam).
Which word fits position in the sense of a situation?
നില (nila), condition or state.