Read in Malayalam
To read is വായിക്കുക (vaayikkuka), with a long aa at the front and a held kk before the ending, and the same verb covers studying and playing a musical instrument. It is the word in I read the paper and in the child can read now. Its verbal noun gives you reading.
Most common translation
Read, learn, study, play on a musical instrument.
അവൾ ദിവസവും പത്രം വായിക്കും.
aval divasavum pathram vaayikkum.
She reads the newspaper daily.
All Malayalam words for “read”
- വായിക്കുക (vaayikkuka) — Read, learn, study, play on a musical instrument.
- ഓതുക (othuka) — Recite the Vedas, chant mantras, read or learn.
- നിരക്ഷരത്വം (niraksharathwam) — Inability to read and write, illiteracy.
ഓതുക (othuka) is to recite scripture or chant, a narrow religious sense of reading, and നിരക്ഷരത്വം (niraksharathwam) is illiteracy, the inability to read and write.
Common questions
How do you say read in Malayalam?
വായിക്കുക (vaayikkuka), the verb for reading and studying.
Why does the same verb mean playing an instrument?
Malayalam treats drawing sound out of an instrument as reading it, so a flute or a violin is played with this verb.