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Malabar|ˈmæləbɑː(r)|
[The name of a sea-board district in the S.W. of Hindostan.]
1. An inhabitant of the Malabar coast.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Lopez de Castaneda's Hist. Conquest E. Indias f. 37v They asked of the Malabars which went with him what he was? 1681R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. ix. 159 This Plain is..inhabited by Malabars, a distinct People from the Chingulayes. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., Malabar-nut,..the English name of a genus of plants, called by botanists Adhatoda. 1787tr. Linnæus' Fam. Plants I. 202 Basella. Malabar Nightshade. 1813Ainslie Mat. Med. Hindostan 99 Malabar Cat Mint. Nepeta Malabarica. Lin. 1816–20T. Green Univ. Herbal I. 162 Basella Rubra, Red Malabar Nightshade. Ibid. 777 Justicia Adhatoda, Malabar Nut. 1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Malabar Leaf, see Cinnamomum Malabatrum... Malabar Rose, see Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. 1855Ogilvie Suppl., Malabar Plum. 1867C. J. Boyle Far Away 72 Started on foot up the gorge, our bags on the shoulders of Malabars. 1882Garden 1 Apr. 215/1 Melastoma malabathrica..is a common plant in Malabar, where it is used in much the same way as the common Laurel is here; hence the name Malabar Laurel. 1883Simmonds Dict. Usef. Anim., Malabar Oil-Sardine (Clupea longiceps). Large quantities of oil are made from this fish on the coast of Malabar. 1931M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier xii. 155 One night his faithful Malabar..woke to the sound of blows. Ibid., The Malabar told his tale.
2. The language spoken on the Malabar coast.
1801T. Munro in G. R. Gleig Life T. Munro (1830) I. 322 From Miliserum to the Chandergeery river no language is understood but the Malabars of that coast. 1837T. Bacon First Impr. Hindostan I. 99 He was compelled to fall back upon his only two words of Malabar. 1872[see Tamulic a.]. 1931M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier x. 124 Tamil, the pre-Aryan language of southern India, which Francis, Portuguese-fashion, calls Malabar.
3. A kind of handkerchief (see quots.).
1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 340 Malabars, cotton handkerchiefs, printed in imitation of Indian handkerchiefs, the patterns of which are of a peculiar and distinctive type, and the contrasts of colour brilliant and striking. 1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 218/2 Malabar, cotton handkerchief printed in brilliant colors and designs of East Indian type.
4. attrib.; esp. in the names of various plants, vegetable products, etc. Malabar bark, the genus Ochna (Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1885); Malabar catmint, a labiate plant, Anisomeles malabarica, used in India as a tonic and febrifuge; Malabar laurel, Melastoma malabathrica (see quot.); Malabar leaf, Cinnamomum malabathrum; Malabar nightshade, the chenopodiaceous genus Basella; Malabar nut, an acanthaceous plant, Justicia Adhatoda; Malabar-oil, an oil obtained from the livers of various fishes found on the Malabar coast; Malabar plum, the jamrosade or rose-apple, Eugenia jambos (Jambosa vulgaris); Malabar rose, a shrubby East Indian rose-mallow, Hibiscus rosa-malabarica.
1696J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 213 Many of their Women by their usual Custom in these cases..have gain'd the Name of Malabar Quills. 1778Malabar language [see Tamil]. 1872tr. St. Francis Xavier's Lett. in H. J. Coleridge Life & Lett. St. Francis Xavier II. 73 Enrico Enriquez..writes and speaks the Malabar tongue.
Hence Malabaˈrese a. [-ese], of or pertaining to the Malabar coast or its inhabitants; Malaˈbarian a. and n.; Malaˈbaric a. and n.; Malaˈbarish a. and n.
1709A. W. Boehm Propagation of Gospel in East 17 This place [sc. Tranquebar] is altogether stocked with Malabarian Heathens. Ibid. 28, I will set down here..the Malabarick Letters. Ibid., I caused..The Lord's-Prayer..to be put into Malabarick. 1717J. T. Philipps Acct. People Malabar i. 2 According to the Malabarish way of Reasoning. Ibid. 8 The chief Reasons why the Malabarians refuse to embrace the Christian Religion. Ibid. v. 53 There are some things..writ in Malabarish. 1718Ziegenbalg & Grundler Let. in R. Millar Hist. Propagation of Christianity (1731) II. viii. 505 We catechise..every Friday in Malabarian. 1788Malabaric [see Tamil]. 1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. Index, Malabaric alphabet. 1922Blackw. Mag. May 612/1 The Moplahs..are the descendants of Arab fathers and Malabarese mothers. 1922O. Jespersen Language ii. 39 He [sc. Rask] was also the first to see that the Dravidian (by him called Malabaric) languages were totally different from Sanskrit. |