Running in Malayalam
Running is ഓട്ടം (ottam), the noun from the verb to run, covering a race, a sprint and a hurried departure. It is the word printed on a sports day programme.
Most common translation
Running, race, flight, fast progress.
അവന് ഓട്ടത്തില് ഒന്നാമനായി.
avan ottathil onnaamanaayi.
He came first in the race.
All Malayalam words for “running”
- ഓട്ടം (ottam) — Running, race, flight, fast progress.
- മണ്ടല് (mandal) — Running, race, flight.
- ഓപ്പറേഷൻ (oppareshan) — Operation, a surgical operation in hospital; also the running or working of something.
- ഓഫ് (of) — Off, switched off, not running; used with cheyyuka to turn something off, as in laittu of cheyyuka.
- ട്രാക്ക് (traakku) — Track, a running or railway track; also a path or trail.
- നൂറുകണക്കിന് (noorukanakkinu) — Hundreds, hundreds of, a count running into several hundred.
- പലായനം (palaayanam) — Fleeing, flight, running away, retreat.
- പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന (pravarthikkunna) — Operating; working or running, as a machine, shop or service; surgery is shasthrakriya.
- മാനേജ്മെന്റ് (maanejment) — Management, the running of an institution, the people who run it.
- മുങ്ങല് (mungal) — A dip in water, plunging (fig.) flight, running away, escaping.
mandal is a close synonym with a more literary feel, and palaayanam is running away in the sense of flight or retreat.
Common questions
How do you say running in Malayalam?
ഓട്ടം (ottam).
Which word covers running away?
പലായനം (palaayanam), fleeing or retreat.