Quantity in Malayalam
None of these entries is a clean match for quantity as a measurable amount. The nearest is സഞ്ചയം (sanchayam), a heap, collection or accumulation, which gets used where English would say a quantity of something. Malayalam normally reaches instead for its noun for measure or amount, which is not among the candidates here.
Group, collection, heap, quantity.
ലൈബ്രറിയിൽ പുസ്തകങ്ങളുടെ വലിയ സഞ്ചയമുണ്ട്.
librariyil pusthakangalude valiya sanchayamund.
The library has a large collection of books.
All Malayalam words for “quantity”
- സഞ്ചയം (sanchayam) — Group, collection, heap, quantity.
- പരിമിതം (parimitham) — That which is limited or measured, limited quantity.
- പരിമിതത്വം (parimithathwam) — State of being limited, limitation, state of being in a limited quantity.
- പിണ്ഡം (pindam) — Mass; the quantity of matter in a body, as used in science; mass in the sense of a crowd is bahujanam and the church service is kurbaana.
- ലേശം (lesham) — A little, trace, tinge, a small quantity, a period of two moments.
പരിമിതം (parimitham) and പരിമിതത്വം (parimithathwam) are about being limited, ലേശം (lesham) is a tiny amount, and പിണ്ഡം (pindam) is mass in the physics sense; none covers the neutral idea of how much there is.
Common questions
How do you say quantity in Malayalam?
There is no exact equivalent in this entry set. സഞ്ചയം (sanchayam) works when you mean an accumulated quantity or heap; for how much of something, Malayalam uses its word for measure.
How do you say a small quantity?
ലേശം (lesham) is the word for a little, a trace or a small quantity.