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malai

/məˈlaɪ/

malai noun: an Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.

Noun

malai (uncountable)

  1. An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.
    • The milk had malai on top.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 109

malai meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali

malai in Hindi

malai, cream
मलाई malāī

malai in Tamil

முப்போது, தசாங்கம், அறுபொழுது, திரிகாலம், சந்தி, சிறுபொழுது

malai in Bengali

malai, a dairy product akin to clotted cream
মালাই malai

Origin of malai

Borrowed from Hindi मलाई (malāī).

Words formed from malai

Questions about malai

What does malai mean?
Malai means an Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.
What is malai in Hindi?
Malai in Hindi is मलाई (malāī). See Malai meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is malai?
Malai is a noun.
How do you pronounce malai?
Malai is pronounced /məˈlaɪ/.

Words near malai in the dictionary

  1. malahack
  2. malahacked
  3. malahacking
  4. malahacks
  5. Malahide
  6. malai
  7. malai kofta
  8. malai paan
  9. Malaia
  10. Malaigang
  11. Malaihao

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: malai (page history and authors); मलाई (Hindi) (page history and authors); malai (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মালাই (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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