Single in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “single”

• ഒറ്റ (otta) — Single, solitary, one, pertaining to one.
• അദ്വൈത (adwaitha) — Having no duality, single, being only one.
• ഉം ഇല്ല (um illa) — Nor; Malayalam has no single word for it and adds um to each item with a negative verb, as in chaayayum illa kaappiyum illa.
• ഏകന്‍ (ekan) — A single person, chief, an eminent person, a helpless man, some unknown person, loner.
• ഏകവചനം (ekavachanam) — A single word, the singular number.
• ഒരാള്‍ (oral) — One person, a single person, somebody.
• തനിമ (thanima) — State of being single, originality, intrinsic worth, genuineness, purity, state of being unmixed or unadulterated.
• പ്രത്യക്ഷത്തിൽ (prathyakshathil) — Apparently; as far as one can see, seemingly; everyday Malayalam has no single word for it and says ennu thonnunnu or kettittu instead.
• യൂണിറ്റുകൾ (yoonittukal) — Units; single measures or parts counted one by one, as units of electricity or units in a textbook; the formal word is ekakangal.
• യൂണിറ്റ് (yoonittu) — Unit, one single whole, one measure of something, one section of a larger body.
• ലോകനഗരം (lokanagaram) — Global city, the whole world taken as a single city.
• വാക്കുകൾ (vaakkukal) — Words, single units of speech or writing; also what somebody has said.
• വ്യക്തി (vyakthi) — Individual, a single person seen apart from the group.

ഏകന്‍ (ekan) and ഒരാള്‍ (oral) mean a single person, തനിമ (thanima) is the state of being single or unmixed, ഏകവചനം (ekavachanam) is the grammatical singular, and the marital sense of single is not covered here.