Upright in Malayalam
നിവര്ന്ന (nivarnna) means straight and erect, the participle of the verb for straightening, and it is the physical sense of upright: a straight back, a straight post. It goes before the noun. The doubled nasal in the middle is held.
Most common translation
Upright, straight.
കുട്ടി നിവര്ന്ന പുറവുമായി ഇരുന്നു
kutti nivarnna puravumaayi irunnu
The child sat with a straight back.
All Malayalam words for “upright”
- നിവര്ന്ന (nivarnna) — Upright, straight.
- സത്യസന്ധമായ (sathyasandhamaya) — Honest; truthful, upright, not cheating or lying.
- ചുവര് (chuvaru) — Wall, the upright side of a room or building, a partition.
- നിൽക്കുക (nilkkuka) — Stand, to be on one's feet, to stay upright in one place.
- മലക്കം (malakkam) — Standing upright and bending the body backwards.
Upright in the moral sense is a different word, സത്യസന്ധമായ (sathyasandhamaya), honest and not given to cheating, so choose by sense and not by the English headword.
Common questions
How do you say upright in Malayalam?
Standing straight is നിവര്ന്ന (nivarnna).
How do you call a person upright?
Use സത്യസന്ധമായ (sathyasandhamaya), which means honest and truthful, since the word for physically straight carries no such praise.