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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Kerala on the Malabar Coast of southwest India.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The language of Malabar, in southwestern India: it is a Dravidian dialect.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A Dravidian language spoken in the states of Kerala and Lakshadweep, India.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India

Etymologies

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From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷam), from മല (mala, "hill, mountain") + അളം (alam, "place").

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