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maluan

maluan is the alternative form of malaun.

Meaning of malaun

Noun

malaun (plural malauns)

  1. (Bangladesh, South-Asia, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) a Hindu person from Bangladesh and India.
    • And then there comes the word ‘Malaun.’ For many Bangladeshi Muslims, Malaun is synonymous to Hindu. Owing to the wide usage of the word since the Partition of 1947, especially after the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, people have almost forgotten Malaun is a derogatory word.2017, WIO Newshttps://www.wionews.com/south-asia/neighbours-but-not-loved-15026
  2. (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, South-Asia, derogatory, ethnic) a Hindu person in general.

Forms of maluan

pluralmaluans

Questions about maluan

What is maluan the alternative form of?
Maluan is the alternative form of malaun.

Words near maluan in the dictionary

  1. Maltz
  2. Maltzes
  3. malu
  4. Malu cu Flori
  5. Malua Bay
  6. maluan
  7. maluans
  8. Malubago
  9. Malubog
  10. Maluf
  11. Malufs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maluan (page history and authors); malaun (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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