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Malayali

Malayali adjective: of or pertaining to Kerala or its people, or to those whose native language is Malayalam.

Adjective

Malayali (comparative more Malayali, superlative most Malayali)

  1. Of or pertaining to Kerala or its people, or to those whose native language is Malayalam.
    • I used to frequent a grubby takeout joint [...] where the Malayali cooks stubbornly made, in addition to chicken tikkas and garlic naans, their own region’s lacy, rice-flour bread.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 177

Noun

Malayali (plural Malayalis or Malayali)

  1. A member of an ethnic group in south-west India, traditionally, residents of the state of Kerala who speak Malayalam.
    Synonyms:
    Keralite

Malayali meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

Malayali in Hindi

member of the ethnic group
मलयालि malyāli

Malayali in Marathi

member of the ethnic group
मल्याळी malyāḷī

Malayali in Telugu

member of the ethnic group
మలయాళీ malayāḷī

Malayali in Malayalam

member of the ethnic group
മലയാളി malayāḷi

Synonyms of Malayali

Forms of Malayali

Adjective
comparativemore Malayali
superlativemost Malayali
alternative formMalayalee
Noun
pluralMalayalis
pluralMalayali

Origin of Malayali

From Malayalam മലയാളി (malayāḷi).

Questions about Malayali

What does Malayali mean?
Malayali means of or pertaining to Kerala or its people, or to those whose native language is Malayalam.
What is Malayali in Hindi?
Malayali in Hindi is मलयालि (malyāli). See Malayali meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Malayali?
Malayali can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Malayali in the dictionary

  1. Malaya
  2. malayaite
  3. Malayalam
  4. Malayalee
  5. Malayalees
  6. Malayali
  7. Malayalim
  8. Malayalis
  9. Malayan
  10. Malayan bear
  11. Malayan bears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Malayali (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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