Three in Malayalam
മൂന്ന് (moonnu) is the number three, the word used for counting, for prices and for three of anything. It has a long vowel at the front, a doubled nasal in the middle and the clipped final vowel that English ears often miss. The numeral itself is written the same way as in English.
Three, the number 3; three, written as the Roman numeral III; also placed after a name to mean the third.
എനിക്ക് മൂന്ന് മാങ്ങ വേണം.
enikku moonnu maanga venam.
I want three mangoes.
All Malayalam words for “three”
- മൂന്ന് (moonnu) — Three, the number 3; three, written as the Roman numeral III; also placed after a name to mean the third.
- ഉദാത്തം (udaatham) — Loftiness, one of the three high tones.
- കാൽഭാഗം (kalbhagam) — Quarter; one fourth of something. A three month period of the year is usually called kvartar.
- ത്രികാലം (thrikalam) — Three times, past, present and future tenses.
- ത്രിഫല (thrifala) — The three medicinal fruits gooseberry, terminalia and ink-nut.
- ത്രിമാനം (thrimanam) — Three dimensions:length, breadth and thickness.
- ത്രിലോകം (thrilokam) — The three worlds- earth, heaven and hell.
- ത്രിവര്ണ്ണ (thrivarnna) — Tri- coloured, having three colours.
- ത്രിവേണി (thriveni) — The confluence of three rivers; the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati near Prayag (Allahabad).
- പിത്തം (pitham) — One of the three causes of illness (according to the Ayurvedic system of medical treatment), biliousness.
- പ്രഹരം (praharam) — A period of three hours, shooting with an arrow, archery.
- യാമം (yaamam) — A period of three hours, suppression, control, way, path, route, midnight, chariot.
The other entries here are Sanskrit compounds built on the numeral prefix for three, such as ത്രികാലം (thrikalam) for the three tenses or ത്രിലോകം (thrilokam) for the three worlds; none of them is the plain counting word.
Common questions
How do you say three in Malayalam?
മൂന്ന് (moonnu). For three people or three rupees the same form goes in front of the noun.
What do compounds like ത്രിമാനം (thrimanam) have in common?
They all open with the Sanskrit prefix for three, so ത്രിമാനം (thrimanam) is three dimensions and ത്രിഫല (thrifala) is the set of three medicinal fruits.