Steps in Malayalam
The steps of a staircase are പടികൾ (padikal), the plural of the word for a single step. Say pa-di-kal with a retroflex d. It is what you climb, at a temple or outside a house.
Most common translation
Stairs, steps leading up or down, a flight of steps; the singular is padi; steps; the stairs one climbs. The stages of a process are called nadapadikal.
പടികൾ കയറി ഞാൻ മുകളിലെത്തി.
padikal kayari njaan mukalilethi.
I climbed the stairs and reached the top.
All Malayalam words for “steps”
- പടികൾ (padikal) — Stairs, steps leading up or down, a flight of steps; the singular is padi; steps; the stairs one climbs. The stages of a process are called nadapadikal.
- കോണിപ്പടി (konippadi) — Stairs, the steps that lead from one floor up to another, a staircase.
- ഘട്ടം (ghattam) — Ghat, landing place, steps leading to a river, state, stage, occasion, customs house.
- നട (nada) — Gait, door, entrance to temple, path, foot steps.
- നടപടികൾ (nadapadikal) — Measures. Steps or actions taken to deal with something; the sense of measurements is alavukal.
- പ്രക്രിയ (prakriya) — Process, a series of steps by which something is done or made.
- പ്രവൃത്തികൾ (pravruthikal) — Acts, deeds, the things a person does; actions, deeds, the things a person does; also the steps taken in a matter.
For steps in the sense of measures taken, Malayalam uses നടപടികൾ (nadapadikal), and കോണിപ്പടി (konippadi) is specifically an indoor staircase between floors.
Common questions
How do you say steps in Malayalam?
Steps are പടികൾ (padikal).
How do you say steps as in actions taken?
നടപടികൾ (nadapadikal), the word in official notices for the measures taken about something, never the steps you walk up.