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Examples
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The raw area is then covered with cloth soaked in special oil and local herbs such as 'malmal' (a paste mixture made from sugar and gum).
A Cruel Custom in Somalia Fulford, Barbara 1993
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The Spring/Summer 2010 collection will be adorned with drapes and light fabrics like chiffon and 'malmal'.
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That is why they bathe babies in sandalwood water and wrap them in soft red malmal, color of luck.
Excerpt: Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 1999
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His angrakha انگرکھا (coat or shirt) was made of malmal ململ, and his pyjamas were wide-bottomed with
WN.com - Articles related to J&K boils: Delhi must back Omar 2010
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His angrakha انگرکھا (coat or shirt) was made of malmal ململ, and his pyjamas were wide-bottomed with
WN.com - Articles related to J&K boils: Delhi must back Omar 2010
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A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur ` variety of limestone 'in lieu of kankar, mulmul ` muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar ` kind of crocodile 'in lieu of magar.
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Other examples of the same phenomenon include: chokey ` customs station 'and chowk ` marketplace,' from cauki ` marketplace '; mulmul (see above) and mull ` soft thin muslin,' from malmal (see above); pandit ` scholar; man held in high respect 'and pundit ` very learned; authoritative commentator,' from pandit ` wise, learned '; and numdah ` thick felt rug' and numnah
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