Surgical in Malayalam
Malayalam has no separate adjective for surgical; it uses the noun ശസ്ത്രക്രിയ (shasthrakriya) in a compound, so surgical treatment and surgical instruments are phrased around the operation. In a hospital corridor many speakers simply say ഓപ്പറേഷൻ (oppareshan).
Most common translation
Surgical operation, surgery.
മുത്തശ്ശിയുടെ ശസ്ത്രക്രിയ നന്നായി കഴിഞ്ഞു.
muthashiyude shasthrakriya nannaayi kazhinju.
Grandmother's surgery went off well.
All Malayalam words for “surgical”
- ശസ്ത്രക്രിയ (shasthrakriya) — Surgical operation, surgery.
- ഓപ്പറേഷൻ (oppareshan) — Operation, a surgical operation in hospital; also the running or working of something.
- പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ (pravarthanangal) — Activities, the things being done, works and programmes carried out; the singular is pravarthanam; operations; the activities or working processes of an organisation; a surgical operation is called shasthrakriya.
പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ (pravarthanangal) is in this list only because the English word operations covers activities as well as surgery; it has nothing to do with medicine.
Common questions
How do you say surgical in Malayalam?
Through the noun: ശസ്ത്രക്രിയ (shasthrakriya) is joined to whatever is being described.
Is the English loanword used?
Often. ഓപ്പറേഷൻ (oppareshan) is common in speech for an operation.