Quickness in Malayalam

Quickness or speed is വേഗം (vegam), two short beats, and it works as a noun and, with no change, as the everyday adverb for fast. It covers the speed of a vehicle, of work and of a reply. ശീഘ്രത (sheeghratha) is the more abstract Sanskrit noun for quickness.

Most common translation

വേഗം (vegam)

Speed, quickness, the rate at which something moves.

വണ്ടിയുടെ വേഗം കുറയ്ക്കൂ.

vandiyude vegam kuraykkoo.

Reduce the speed of the vehicle.

All Malayalam words for “quickness”

Here sheeghratha belongs to formal prose, while vegam is what people actually say; ചൊടിപ്പ്‌ (chodipp) means quickness only through its main sense of flaring anger.

Common questions

How do you say quickness in Malayalam?

വേഗം (vegam) is the everyday noun, and ശീഘ്രത (sheeghratha) is its formal counterpart.

Can vegam mean hurry up?

Yes, said on its own it works as an urging, roughly be quick.