Malabar
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Malabar may refer to:
Places
Australia
- 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
India
- Malabar region, northern districts of Kerala state
- 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
Indonesia
- Malabar, Indonesia, a town on the island of Java, Indonesia
- Mount Malabar, volcano in Indonesia
- Malabar Radio Station
Seychelles
- Malabar Island (also called Middle Island), part of the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles
Singapore
- Masjid Malabar, a mosque in Singapore
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
- Malabar, Florida, United States
- Malabar Farm State Park in Mansfield, Ohio, United States, the former home of Louis Bromfield
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 plant from Asia
- Malabar chestnut, Pachira aquatica, wetland tree from Central and South America
- Monsooned Malabar, a variety of dry processed coffee beans
Zoology
- 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
People
- 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
In art and culture
- 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
Institutions
- 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
Transportation
- 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
Other uses
- 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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