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Malavar

Malavar is the obsolete form of Malabar.

Meaning of Malabar

Proper noun

Malabar

  1. (India, historical) The region of coastal southwestern India, principally the modern state of Kerala.
  2. (obsolete) The Tamil language.
  3. (India, historical) A district of British India.
  4. A suburb of Sydney in the Randwick council area, New South Wales, Australia.

See all 5 meanings of Malabar

Questions about Malavar

What is Malavar the obsolete form of?
Malavar is the obsolete form of Malabar.

Words near Malavar in the dictionary

  1. Malatya
  2. Malaubang
  3. malaun
  4. Malaunay
  5. malauns
  6. Malavar
  7. Malave
  8. Malavedan
  9. Malaves
  10. malavogue
  11. malavogued

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Malavar (page history and authors); Malabar (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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