Malabar

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Malabar may refer to:

Places

Malabar, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
- Malabar Headland, near Malabar, New South Wales
- Malabar Battery, a coastal defence battery built in 1943 during World War II at Malabar Headland, Malabar, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Boora Point Battery

Malabar region, northern districts of Kerala state
- North Malabar
Malabar Coast, the entire south-western coast of the Indian peninsula
Malabar District, a former district around Malabar (Northern Kerala); 1792–1956
Dutch Malabar, former Dutch colony; 1661–1795
Zamorin, aka Kingdom of Malabar or Samoothiri; 12th Century - 1766
Kingdom of Cheras, South India; 5th Century BCE - 1102 CE
Malabar Hill, a neighbourhood of Mumbai
Malabar rainforests, one or more distinct ecoregions recognized by biogeographers

Malabar Island (also called Middle Island), part of the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles

Malabar, Florida, United States
Malabar Farm State Park in Mansfield, Ohio, United States, the former home of Louis Bromfield

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 plant from Asia
Malabar chestnut, Pachira aquatica, wetland tree from Central and South America
Monsooned Malabar, a variety of dry processed coffee beans

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 danio, a tropical fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae)
Malabar grouper, an Indo-Pacific species of fish in the family Serranidae
Malabar large-spotted civet, a civet
Malabar lark, Galerida malabarica, is a sedentary breeding bird in western India
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 whistling-thrush, a whistling thrush in the thrush family Turdidae

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
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

Malabar, a fictional horse in The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926) by D. H. Lawrence
Malabar Princess, a 2004 French film directed by Gilles Legrand
Malabar Wedding, a 2008 Malayalam film directed by the Rajesh-Faisal duo
Malabar Police, a 1999 Tamil film
Malabar Front, the first track on If These Trees Could Talk's self-titled EP
Malabar (typeface), a serif font family

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 the Government of Kerala
Malabar Christian College, a college run by the Protestant Church of South India
Malabar Hill Club, a sports club based in Mumbai, India
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 (train), a train in Indonesia
Malabar Express, a train service in India, named after the Malabar Coast
HMS Malabar, a number of ships and shore stations bearing the name, mostly in Bermuda
SS Malabar, a series of steamships
USS Malabar (AF-37), an Adria-class stores ship acquired by the US Navy for service in World War II

Malabar (chewing gum), a bubble gum produced in France by Cadbury
Malabar matthi curry, a dish where the body of a sardine is semi-stewed in a Kerala-style curry with assorted vegetables
Malabar Migration, the large-scale migration from Central-South Kerala to northern regions of Kerala called Malabar in the 20th century
754 Malabar, an asteroid discovered by August Kopff
Exercise Malabar, a multilateral naval exercise involving the United States, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore
Malabar Rite, a Rite of the Roman Catholic Church
Malabar rites, liturgical practices from India

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