Tract in Malayalam
ലഘുലേഖ (laghulega) is a tract in the printed sense, a pamphlet or short polemical booklet, made from the words for light and writing. Political and religious groups in Kerala have been handing them out for a century. Four light syllables, none of them stressed hard.
Most common translation
Pamphlet, tract.
ആരോഗ്യത്തെ പറ്റി ഒരു ലഘുലേഖ കിട്ടി.
aarogyathe patti oru laghulega kitti.
I got a pamphlet about health.
All Malayalam words for “tract”
- ലഘുലേഖ (laghulega) — Pamphlet, tract.
- സ്ഥലം (sthalam) — Tract of land, ground, floor, site, plot, place.
For tract meaning a stretch of land, use സ്ഥലം (sthalam), the general word for a plot or area; the two English senses share nothing in Malayalam.
Common questions
How do you say tract in Malayalam?
ലഘുലേഖ (laghulega) for a pamphlet, സ്ഥലം (sthalam) for a tract of land.
What does the name mean literally?
Light writing, in the sense of a slim printed piece rather than a book.