Qualification in Malayalam

Qualification in the sense that matters on a job advertisement is അര്‍ഹത (arhatha), worthiness or eligibility, built on the stem for deserving. The rh is said as a light r followed by a breathy h. Government notifications use it for the required qualifications and for eligibility generally.

Most common translation

അര്‍ഹത (arhatha)

Worthiness, deservingness, qualification, eligibility.

ഈ ജോലിക്ക് അവൾക്ക് അര്‍ഹത ഉണ്ട്.

ee jolikku avalkku arhatha undu

She has the qualification for this job.

All Malayalam words for “qualification”

അര്‍ഹം (arham) is the bare adjective worth or fit and sounds literary, while ഡിഗ്രി (digri) is the borrowed degree, one particular paper qualification rather than the concept.

Common questions

How do you say qualification in Malayalam?

അര്‍ഹത (arhatha) is the word, used both for formal qualifications and for being eligible.

What do you call a university degree?

That is ഡിഗ്രി (digri), the loan word used for a degree certificate, and also for degrees of temperature or angle.