Pulse in Malayalam
നാഡി (nadi) is the pulse a doctor feels at the wrist, and the same word covers a nerve and a blood vessel. Taking someone's pulse is described with it.
Most common translation
Nerve, blood vessel, artery or vein, pulse.
വൈദ്യന് രോഗിയുടെ നാഡി പരിശോധിച്ചു.
vaidyan rogiyude nadi parishodhichu.
The physician checked the patient's pulse.
All Malayalam words for “pulse”
- നാഡി (nadi) — Nerve, blood vessel, artery or vein, pulse.
- ധാന്യം (dhaanyam) — Grain, pulse.
- തകര (thakara) — Kind of pulse(Cassia Tora).
The other sense of pulse, the edible legume, is ധാന്യം (dhaanyam) in this list, a word that really means grain in general, while തകര (thakara) is one particular pulse plant. English has two unrelated words here and Malayalam keeps them apart.
Common questions
How do you say pulse in Malayalam?
നാഡി (nadi) for the pulse in the body.
What about pulses as food?
ധാന്യം (dhaanyam) is the dictionary's answer, though it covers grain broadly rather than legumes alone.