Purpose in Malayalam
Purpose in the sense of the aim you have in mind is ഉദ്ദേശ്യം (uddeshyam), a word you see in letters, legal notices and ordinary conversation about why someone did something. The double dd is held, giving the word a firm second beat. It names the intention behind an act rather than the act itself.
Intention, aim, purpose, the end in view.
നിങ്ങളുടെ വരവിന്റെ ഉദ്ദേശ്യം എന്താണ്.
ningalude varavinte uddhesyam enthaanu.
What is the purpose of your visit.
All Malayalam words for “purpose”
- ഉദ്ദേശ്യം (uddeshyam) — Intention, aim, purpose, the end in view.
- ആവശ്യം (aavashyam) — Need, necessity, usefulness, purpose, advantage.
- തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക (thiranjedukkuka) — Choose, to pick out, to select one out of several; selected; chose or picked out from among several, singled out for a purpose.
- നുണ പറയുക (nuna parayuka) — Lying. Telling something untrue on purpose; the separate sense of lying down is kidakkuka.
- നുണകൾ (nunakal) — Lies; false statements, untruths told on purpose.
- ഫണ്ട് (fandu) — Fund; money set aside or collected for a purpose, a store of money; funds; money set apart or available for a purpose; panam is money in general and dhanasahaayam is aid money.
- മേഖല (mekhala) — Zone; an area marked off for a purpose, a region or belt; sector. A part or division of an economy or of an area; a field of work.
- ലക്ഷ്യബോധം (lakshyabodham) — Sense of purpose.
- സംഘടന (samghatana) — Organization, an association or body of people formed for a purpose; a union, group or institution.
- സംഘടനകൾ (samghadanakal) — Organizations. Groups of people working together for a common purpose; associations or institutions.
ആവശ്യം (aavashyam) is need or requirement and only edges into purpose when you talk about what something is needed for; the other entries here, such as the fund and zone senses, merely mention the English word purpose in their explanations.
Common questions
How do you say purpose in Malayalam?
ഉദ്ദേശ്യം (uddeshyam) is the word for purpose, aim or intention.
How do you say on purpose?
Malayalam builds it off this same noun in an adverbial case, so the idea of deliberately is carried by uddeshyam with a case ending rather than a separate word.