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Nambiar

Nambiar proper noun: a surname from Malayalam.

Proper noun

Nambiar (plural Nambiars)

  1. A surname from Malayalam.

Nambiar meaning in Malayalam

Nambiar in Malayalam

Nambiar, a subcaste of Brahmans in Kerala, India
നമ്പ്യാർ nampyāṟ

Forms of Nambiar

pluralNambiars

Origin of Nambiar

Borrowed from Malayalam നമ്പ്യാർ (nampyāṟ). This surname is mostly found in Kerala.

Questions about Nambiar

What does Nambiar mean?
Nambiar means a surname from Malayalam.
What is Nambiar in Malayalam?
Nambiar in Malayalam is നമ്പ്യാർ (nampyāṟ). See Nambiar meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is Nambiar?
Nambiar is a proper noun.

Words near Nambiar in the dictionary

  1. namba
  2. Nambaran
  3. nambas
  4. Nambe
  5. Nambeadarim
  6. Nambiar
  7. Nambiars
  8. Nambicuara
  9. nambies
  10. Nambikwara
  11. Nambiquara

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nambiar (page history and authors); നമ്പ്യാർ (Malayalam) (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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