Proficient in Malayalam
വിദഗ്ദ്ധ (vidagddha) means skilled and proficient, with expert knowledge behind it. It sits before a noun, and its masculine personal form is വിദഗ്ദ്ധന് (vidagddhan), an expert.
Skilled, clever, proficient, having expert knowledge, deceitful, cunning, indigestible, not well-cooked; skilled woman, adept.
വിദഗ്ദ്ധ ഡോക്ടർമാരുടെ സംഘം ആശുപത്രിയിലുണ്ട്.
vidagddha doctormaarude sangham aashupathriyilund.
There is a team of expert doctors at the hospital.
All Malayalam words for “proficient”
- വിദഗ്ദ്ധ (vidagddha) — Skilled, clever, proficient, having expert knowledge, deceitful, cunning, indigestible, not well-cooked; skilled woman, adept.
- വിദഗ്ദ്ധന് (vidagddhan) — An expert, proficient man, clever, cunning person, an adept (person), adept.
Both words have a second, darker set of meanings, cunning and deceitful, so a sharp operator can be described with them too. Tone and context decide which reading a listener takes.
Common questions
How do you say proficient in Malayalam?
വിദഗ്ദ്ധ (vidagddha) as an adjective; വിദഗ്ദ്ധന് (vidagddhan) for a proficient man or an expert.
Can the word be taken as an insult?
It can. The same words also mean clever in the sense of cunning, so praise can read as suspicion.