Malabar

Malabar

Malabar may refer to:

Contents

Places

India

See also: List of feudal states of Kerala

Other

Botany

  • Malabathrum or Malabar leaf, classical or medieval name for Cinnamomum tamala
  • Malabar spinach, Basella alba, vine in the tropics sometimes used as a vegetable
  • Malabar pepper, a variety of Black pepper, Piper nigrum
  • Malabar nut, Justicia adhatoda , medicinal plat in Asia
  • Malabar chestnut, Pachira aquatica, wetland tree in Central and South America

Churches

General

Individual churches

See also Malankara for Malankara churches

Other uses

  • Malabars, a mistaken appellation for people of South Indian origin and Sri Lankan Tamils used by 19th century westerners
  • Malbars, People of Tamil origin in Réunion
  • HMS Malabar
  • USS Malabar (AF-37), an Adria-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas
  • SS Malabar, a series of steamships, including SS Malabar, also SS Malabar 1914, 1925, 1938 and 1945
  • Malabar United FC, a football club, which is registered in Kochi, but has its training base in Kozhikode, based in Kerala state of India
  • Malabar (chewing gum), a bubble gum produced in France by Cadbury
  • Malabar, a fictional horse in The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • Malabar Christian College, a college run by Protestant Church of South India
  • 754 Malabar, an asteroid discovered by August Kopff
  • Malabar (typeface), a serif font family

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  • Behramji Malabari (1853–1912), Indian poet, publicist, author, and social reformer best known for his ardent advocacy for the protection of the rights of women
  • Malabar Singh Thapa, Nepalese politician, belonging to the Rastriya Janamukti Party

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  • Exercise Malabar, a multilateral naval exercise involving the United States, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore
  • Malabar Barbet, a small barbet found in the Western Ghats of India. It was formerly treated as a race of the Crimson-fronted Barbet. It overlaps in some places with the range of the Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala)
  • Malabar Battery, a coastal defence battery built in 1943 during World War II at Malabar Headland, Malabar, New South Wales, Australia. The battery is also known as Boora Point Battery
  • Malabar Branch, a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library located in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California
  • Malabar Cancer Centre, established at Kodiyeri near Thalassery in Kerala state, South India is an autonomous centre under Government of Kerala. MCC is constituted as a Charitable Society under Department of Power
  • Malabar Express, a train service in India, named after the Malabar coast, the anothersouth-western coastal region of India from Mangalore to Kochi
  • Malabar Hill Club, a sports club based in Mumbai, India. Membership at the club is limited and is difficult to procure.
  • Malabar Lark, Galerida malabarica, is a sedentary breeding bird in western India
  • Malabar Migration, refers to the large-scale migration from Central-South Kerala to northern regions of Kerala called Malabar in the 20th century. The migration started from early decades of 20th century and continued well into 1970s and 1980s
  • Malabar Princess, a 2004 French film directed by Gilles Legrand
  • Malabar Spiny Dormouse, a species of muroid rodent endemic to the Western Ghats of India
  • Malabar Trogon, a species of bird in the trogon family
  • Malabar Wedding, a 2008 Malayalam film directed by Rajesh-Faisal duo, who are Priyadarshan's associates. The film had Indrajith and Gopika in lead roles
  • Malabar danio, a tropical fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae)
  • Malabar grouper, an Indo-Pacific species of fish in the family Serranidae
  • Malabar matthi curry, a dish where the body of a Sardine, is semi-stewed in a Kerala-style curry with assorted vegetables such as okra and onions and usually served with either rice or bread or tapioca created by famous Thankappan
  • Malabar rainforests, refers to one or more distinct ecoregions recognized by biogeographers
  • Monsooned Malabar, a variety of dry processed coffee beans

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  • Malabar Police

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  • malabar — [ malabar ] n. m. • 1911; p. ê. de Malabar « Indien de la côte de Malabar »; pour le sens → lascar ♦ Arg. Homme très fort. ⇒ costaud (cf. Une armoire à glace). Il a deux malabars pour gardes du corps. ● malabar nom masculin (argot malabar, de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Malabar — • The name of a district of India stretching about 145 miles along the west coast, south of Mangalore, in the general region of present day Kerala Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Malabar     Malabar …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Malabar — Malabar, FL U.S. town in Florida Population (2000): 2622 Housing Units (2000): 1177 Land area (2000): 10.630928 sq. miles (27.533975 sq. km) Water area (2000): 2.581710 sq. miles (6.686597 sq. km) Total area (2000): 13.212638 sq. miles (34.220572 …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Malabar, FL — U.S. town in Florida Population (2000): 2622 Housing Units (2000): 1177 Land area (2000): 10.630928 sq. miles (27.533975 sq. km) Water area (2000): 2.581710 sq. miles (6.686597 sq. km) Total area (2000): 13.212638 sq. miles (34.220572 sq. km)… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • malabar — adj. 2 g. 1. Relativo à costa ocidental da Índia ou aos seus habitantes. 2. Diz se de certos jogos em que se fazem habilidades de mão. • s. 2 g. 3. Natural do Malabar. • s. m. 4. Língua falada no Malabar …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • Malabar — Mal a*bar , n. A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. [1913 Webster] {Malabar nut} (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the {Adhatoda Vasica}, sometimes used medicinally. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Malăbar — (Pfefferküste, bei den Einheimischen Malayala od. Malayarara d.i. Bergland), 1) die Küstenlandschaft Ostindiens, welche sich an der Westseite des Dekan in einer Ausdehnung von 65 – 70 Meilen hinzieht, nach der gewöhnlichen Annahme bei Mount Dilly …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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  • Malabar — Malabar, Küstenstrich im SW. der vorderind. Halbinsel (s. Karte »Ostindien«), zwischen den Westghats und dem Meer und den Kaps Dilli (12°8 nördl. Br.) und Komorin, 540 km lang, umfaßt die Tributärstaaten Kotschin, Travankor und den zur… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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