Quality in Malayalam
Quality is ഗുണം (gunam), a short Sanskrit noun that means both the quality of a thing and goodness or virtue in a person. Two beats, with a clean g and a nasal ending. It is on cloth labels, in Ayurvedic texts and in the everyday remark that something has quality to it.
Function, duty, quality, goodness, number of times, wick, string, thread, bow-string, strand, secondary function or duty, virtue, property (of a thing).
ഈ തുണിയുടെ ഗുണം നല്ലതാണ്.
ee thuniyude gunam nallathaanu.
The quality of this cloth is good.
All Malayalam words for “quality”
- ഗുണം (gunam) — Function, duty, quality, goodness, number of times, wick, string, thread, bow-string, strand, secondary function or duty, virtue, property (of a thing).
- മേനി (meni) — Body, shape of the body, quality, nobility, complexion, grace, measure of crops, times or fold, praise, flattery.
- കൂടുതൽ മോശം (kooduthal mosham) — Worse; more bad than before, of poorer quality or condition.
- ക്ലാസിക് (klasik) — Classic; of lasting quality, time tested, recognised as a fine example.
- ഗ്രേഡ് (gredu) — Grade; the mark given for schoolwork, a level of quality, a rank in a job.
- നല്ല (nalla) — Fine, good, well, satisfactory; good enough in quality; nice, good, pleasant, kind.
- പീടിക (peedika) — Shop (of mediocre size and quality), market place, bazaar, grocery.
- പ്രത്യേകത (prathyekatha) — Feature; a special quality or characteristic of something, a facility in a device or app, a part of the face.
- മാനദണ്ഡങ്ങൾ (maanadandangal) — Standards; the rules or levels of quality something is measured against, also called nilavaaram.
- മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുക (mecchappeduthuka) — Improve; to make something better, to raise its quality; to get better oneself is mecchappeduka.
- സവിശേഷത (savisheshatha) — Peculiarity, special characteristic, remarkable quality, significance, salient feature.
- സാരസ്യം (saarasyam) — Interesting quality, humour, fun, amusing quality.
Watch the spread of senses: gunam also means benefit or improvement, as in medicine doing someone good, and ഗ്രേഡ് (gredu) is the borrowed grade, a level of quality rather than the concept; മേനി (meni) is mainly body or complexion.
Common questions
How do you say quality in Malayalam?
ഗുണം (gunam) is the word, for the quality of goods and for good qualities in a person.
How do you say good quality?
Put the adjective നല്ല (nalla), good or fine, in front of the noun; shopkeepers say it exactly that way.