Times in Malayalam
When times counts occasions, Malayalam uses തവണ (thavana), as in three times a day, and the number goes in front of it. The same noun names an instalment of a payment, since each instalment is a turn. Three short syllables, evenly weighted.
Most common translation
Times, occasions, the number of times something happens.
ഞാൻ മൂന്നു തവണ വിളിച്ചു.
njaan moonnu thavana vilichu.
I called three times.
All Malayalam words for “times”
- തവണ (thavana) — Times, occasions, the number of times something happens.
- കൊയ്ത്തുകാലം (koythukaalam) — Harvest season, (fig.) time of plenty, prosperous, times, thriving, flourishing season.
- എന്നും (ennum) — Always, at all times, ever (with a negative word).
- എരട്ടി (eratti) — Twice, double, two times.
- എഴുത്താണി (ezhuthani) — Style used for writing on palm-leaf (in olden times).
- ഗുണം (gunam) — Function, duty, quality, goodness, number of times, wick, string, thread, bow-string, strand, secondary function or duty, virtue, property (of a thing).
- ത്രികാലം (thrikalam) — Three times, past, present and future tenses.
- ദ്വിഗുണനം (dwigunanam) — Two times, double, doubling.
- പണ്ടത്തെ (pandathe) — Old, ancient, of olden times.
- പതിന്മടങ്ങ് (patrhinmadang) — Ten times.
- പത്തിരട്ടി (pathiratti) — Ten times, ten fold.
- പലകുറി (palakuri) — Repeatedly, again and again, several times.
- പഴമക്കാര് (pazhamakkar) — Old fashioned people, people who know of olden times, old people, with ancient wisdom.
- പ്രാചീനകാലം (praacheenakaalam) — Ancient times, olden times.
- മുന്നം (munnam) — Before, in olden times.
- മുമ്പ് (mumbu) — Formerly, in olden times; front.
- മേനി (meni) — Body, shape of the body, quality, nobility, complexion, grace, measure of crops, times or fold, praise, flattery.
- രാശി (raashi) — Multitude, heap, any one of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, a gold coin of olden times.
- വല്ലപ്പോഴും (vallappozhum) — Now and then, at times, occasionally, sometimes.
എരട്ടി (eratti) is the special word for twice or double, and ഗുണം (gunam) counts times only in arithmetic; for times meaning an era, the entries here fall back on words for seasons and tenses.
Common questions
How do you say times in Malayalam?
തവണ (thavana) when counting occasions, placed after the number.
How do you say twice?
Either the number two with തവണ (thavana), or the single word എരട്ടി (eratti).