Short in Malayalam
For short in length or height, Malayalam says കുറിയ (kuriya), the ordinary adjective for short and small. Writing and grammar prefer ഹ്രസ്വ (hraswa), the Sanskrit word that also names a short vowel.
Most common translation
Short, small, dwarfish.
അവൻ കുറിയ ആളാണ്.
avan kuriya alanu.
He is a short man.
All Malayalam words for “short”
- കുറിയ (kuriya) — Short, small, dwarfish.
- കട്ടയന് (kattayan) — Short, stout man, midget, a podgy person.
- ഹ്രസ്വ (hraswa) — Short, small, reduced in length.
- ചുരുക്കമായ (churukkamaaya) — Brief, short, lasting or taking only a little time.
- ചെറിയ (cheriya) — Small, short, little, insignificant, tender.
- ലഘുവായ (laghuvaaya) — Simple, light, short.
- അടുത്ത് (aduthu) — Near, close by; at a short distance.
- അരക്ഷണം (arakshanam) — Half a moment, a very short while or time.
- അല്പകാലം (alapakalam) — A short time, a short while.
- അല്പായുസ്സ് (alpayussu) — Short life.
- ഇൻക് (ink) — Inc; short for Incorporated, written after a company name; Malayalam keeps the English form and calls the firm a kampani.
- കാഴ്ചക്കുറവ് (kaazhchakkurav) — Short sight, myopia.
- കുറിപ്പുകൾ (kurippukal) — Notes, short written records or jottings; points written down while studying or in a meeting.
- കുറുകുക (kurukuka) — Become small or short, become viscous, thicken, make a cooling sound.
- ചാകര (chakara) — Occurring of mud-banks and appearance of plenty of fish for a short period at some places along the Kerala coast during the monsoon, (idm) a season of plenty, plentifulness.
- ചുണ്ട് (chund) — Lip, short beak, snout.
- ചുരുക്കം (churukkam) — Summary, a short account, the gist of something told briefly.
- ചുരുക്കത്തില് (churukkathil) — In short, briefly, in a nut shell.
- ട്വിറ്റർ (tvittar) — Twitter, the social media site for short public posts, now known as X.
- നിമിഷങ്ങൾ (nimishangal) — Moments; very short periods of time, instants; also occasions worth remembering.
- പകരക്കാരൻ (pakarakkaaran) — Sub. A substitute, especially a player who comes on in place of another; short for substitute.
- പോരാത്ത (poratha) — Which is short of or insufficient.
- പ്രൊഫൈൽ (profail) — Profile; the page holding a person's details on an app or website, a short account of someone, a side view of the face.
- ബെൻ (ben) — Ben; a male given name in English, the short form of Benjamin.
- മിനിറ്റ് (minittu) — Minutes, units of time of sixty seconds each; after a number Malayalam keeps the singular form minittu; minute, sixty seconds, a short while.
- ലഘു (laghu) — Light, trivial, trifling, easy, simple, insignificant; one short vowel in metre.
- വിദ്യാഭ്യാസപരം (vidyaabhyaasaparam) — Educational, relating to education or teaching; before a noun the short form vidyaabhyaasa is used.
- വിവരം (vivaram) — Info, information, details about something; the short spoken form of information.
- സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ (saankethikavidya) — Technology, applied technical knowledge, machines and methods based on science; tech; technology, technical knowledge and the machines built with it, the short form of technology.
- ഹ്രസ്വം (Hraswam) — Short vowel, shortness.
- ഹ്രസ്വദൃഷ്ടി (hraswadrishti) — Not far-sighted; an eye disease, myopia, shortness of sight, short sight.
- ഹ്രസ്വന് (hraswan) — Dwarf, a short man, midget.
Short in time is ചുരുക്കമായ (churukkamaaya), brief, while കട്ടയന് (kattayan) is a noun for a short stout man, and cheriya, laghuvaaya and aduthu drift into small, light and nearby.
Common questions
How do you say short in Malayalam?
കുറിയ (kuriya) for a short thing or person, ചുരുക്കമായ (churukkamaaya) for a short time.
Which word does a grammar book use?
ഹ്രസ്വ (hraswa), which also names the short vowel.