Thrust in Malayalam

തള്ളല്‍ (thallal) is a push or thrust, the noun from the common verb for pushing. It serves for a physical shove, for the thrust of an engine in technical writing and, idiomatically, for pushiness in a person. The doubled l in the middle is the sound to get right.

Most common translation

തള്ളല്‍ (thallal)

Pushing, thrusting, thrust, arrogance, rejection.

ബസ്സിൽ നല്ല തള്ളല്‍ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു.

bassil nalla thallal undaayirunnu

There was a lot of pushing in the bus.

All Malayalam words for “thrust”

The same noun also means rejection, as in pushing a claim aside, so the surrounding words decide the sense; ഞെളിയുക (neliyuka) is only about thrusting the chest out in pride.

Common questions

How do you say thrust in Malayalam?

തള്ളല്‍ (thallal), the noun of pushing, covers thrust in both the physical and the figurative sense.

Does the word have a negative shade?

It can. Used of a person, തള്ളല്‍ (thallal) suggests arrogance or shoving one's way forward.