Malabarn.

Brit.

/ˈmaləbɑː/, U.S.

/ˈmæləbɑr/

Forms: 1500s– Malabar, 1600s Mallabar, 1800s Malabars (in sense 2).

Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese Malabar.

Etymology: < Portuguese Malabar the Malabar Coast or one of its inhabitants (1512), the Malayalam language (1551) < Arabic Malaybār the Malabar Coast or its inhabitants (13th cent. or earlier; also in forms Manībār (12th cent.), Mulaybār (14th cent.)) < a Dravidian first element (compare Tamil malai , Malayalam mala : see Malayalam n. and adj.) + Persian bār region, country.The application to the Tamil people and language is after similar use in Portuguese, in which it probably arose from the fact that the Malabar were encountered by the Portuguese earlier than the Tamils, and the name of the language of the one people was hence used also for the closely related language of the other. (For further discussion see H. Yule and A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) at cited word.) In form Malabars (see sense 2) perhaps after Dutch Malabaars; compare Moors n.

1. Predominantly (see etymological note): = Tamil n. 1. Occasionally: †a native or inhabitant of the Malabar Coast of south-west India (obsolete). Chiefly historical.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] > native or inhabitant of India > parts of

Malabar1582

Gujaratic1607

Bengalan1613

Goan1652

Hindustan1662

Macassar1665

Gangetic1677

Malabarian1709

Mysorean1761

Bengalese1778

Assamese1794

Hindustani1813

Marwari1815

Sindhi1815

mofussilite1828

Mizo1832

Goanese1835

Punjabi1843

Bengali1848

Sindian1849

Madrasi1851

Toda1851

Hindia1853

Lushai1862

Kashmirian1876

Kashmir1882

Kashmiri1882

Konkani1885

ditcher1886

Ladakhi1893

Bihari1897

Sikkimese1938

Rajasthani1947

Maharashtrian1953

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias f. 37^v They asked of the Malabars which went with him what he was?

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 27 The Mallabars..throwing fire-balls at vs.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 185 These Mallabars..excell in theeuing.

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. ix. 159 This Plain is..inhabited by Malabars, a distinct People from the Chingulayes.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 306 A Malabar..conducted them to a Dutch Town.

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. 72 First the Madagascar women,..next to these the Malabars.

1805 R. Semple Walks & Sketches Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) 37 At the Cape..they are no longer merely Malays, or Malabars, or Natives of the coast of Mozambique; they are slaves.

1867 C. J. Boyle Far Away 72 Started on foot up the gorge, our bags on the shoulders of Malabars.

1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier xii. 155 One night his faithful Malabar..woke to the sound of blows.

1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier xii. 155 The Malabar told his tale.

2. = Tamil n. 2, esp. the colloquial variety of the language. Occasionally: †Malayalam (obsolete). Now historical.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Elamo-Dravidian > [noun] > Dravidian > Tamil-Kodagu > Malabar

Malabarian1680

Malabaric1698

Malabarish1717

Malabar1801

1801 T. 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.

1810 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 128 The language spoken at Madras by the natives is the Talinga, here called Malabars.

1837 T. Bacon First Impressions Hindostan I. 99 He was compelled to fall back upon his only two words of Malabar.

1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence i. 12 The Dravidian or Tamulic [groups], including Tamul, Telegu, Malabar, Canaries.

1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier x. 124 Tamil, the pre-Aryan language of southern India, which Francis, Portuguese-fashion, calls Malabar.

3. A kind of brightly coloured cotton handkerchief (see quots.).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > kerchief > types of

rumal1622

bandana1732

Barcelona1761

pulicat1768

fogle1811

kora1833

shawl-handkerchief1838

web1843

foulard1856

waterman1860

Malabar1882

Monteith1882

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. 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.

1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 218/2 Malabar, cotton handkerchief printed in brilliant colors and designs of East Indian type.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as Malabar Coast, Malabar language, etc.

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1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 184 We espied a Mallabar Iuncke of seuentie Tunnes.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 296 Wee found thirty or forty Frigads of Mallabar men of warre.

1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 213 Many of their Women by their usual Custom in these cases..have gain'd the Name of Malabar Quills.

1778 (title) A Grammar for learning the Principles of the Malabar Language.

1794 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (ed. 14) II. 696 Malabar language.

1794 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (ed. 14) II. 696 Malabar coast.

1818 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Aug. 227/2 The Cobra Manilla is known on the Malabar coast as the bangle snake.

1872 tr. St. Francis Xavier's Lett. in H. J. Coleridge Life & Lett. St. Francis Xavier II. 73 Enrico Enriquez..writes and speaks the Malabar tongue.

1900 T. K. Gopal Pannikar Malabar & its Folk v. 74 (heading) Malabar drama.

1946 Mariner's Mirror 32 209 The ordinary Malabar dug-out, called toni in Bombay.

1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor iv. 87 Millicent, the Malabar squirrel.

1967 Times 9 Feb. 2 (advt.) Chinese Carpets and plain deep pile off-white ‘Malabar’ Carpets.

1989 Guardian 21 July 23/4 Romantics..suppose the Jews fetched up on the Malabar coast as part of King Solomon's expeditionary force.

C2. In the names of plants, plant products, etc., first encountered on or originally obtained from the Malabar Coast.

Malabar bark n. any of various tropical shrubs constituting the genus Ochna (family Ochnaceae).

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1868 Paxton's Bot. Dict. (new ed.) 352/1 Malabar-bark, see Ochna.

1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. Malabar bark, any shrub of the genus Ochna, especially O. lucida, a yellow-flowered East-Indian shrub producing succulent fruits: used as a tonic.

Malabar catmint n. a plant, Anisomeles malabarica (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), used in South Asia as a tonic and febrifuge.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > other labiate plants

dictamnusOE

MarrubiumOE

dittany1552

water horehound1578

bush basil1597

gypsy herb1726

Perilla1783

gypsywort1787

Malabar catmint1813

chia1832

nettle geranium1860

gas plant1863

coleus1885

1813 W. Ainslie Materia Medica Hindoostan 99 Malabar Cat Mint. Nepeta Malabarica. Lin.

Malabar laurel n. an Indo-Malayan evergreen shrub, Melastoma malabathricum (family Melastomataceae), grown for ornament in the East.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > tropical > melastoma or Malabar laurel

Melastoma1753

Malabar laurel1882

1882 Garden 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.

Malabar leaf n. (also Malabar leaves) the dried leaves of any of several trees of the South Asian genus Cinnamomum, formerly used in medicine; also called Indian leaf.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > malabar leaf

Malabar leaf1837

1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 75/1 Malabar leaf. Is the Cinnamomum Malabatrum of G. Don. An East India tree, formerly the Laurus Malabatrum of Linnæus.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Cinnamomum Malabathrum, Indian, or Malabar leaf.

1890 Cent. Dict. at Leaf Malabar leaves, the leaves of Cinnamomum nitidum and other species mixed together, formerly used in European medicine.

Malabar nightshade n. a whitish- or reddish-flowered, fleshy-leaved, twining plant, Basella alba (family Basellaceae), grown as a pot-herb in tropical Asian countries and eaten like spinach; also with distinguishing word (see red Malabar nightshade n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d)).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > Malabar nightshade

basella1731

climbing nightshade1753

Malabar nightshade1760

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > other plants of the Chenopodiaceae

blitec1420

strawberry spinach1731

Malabar nightshade1760

tick-seed1760

epazote1848

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Basella Climbing Nightshade from Malabar.]

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 320 Nightshade, Malabar, Basella.

1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) Index 1204/2 Malabar night-shade, see Basella.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 686/2 The Malabar nightshade is a Basella, which is widely used as a pot-herb in India.

1978 B. N. Bowden in V. H. Heywood Flowering Plants of World 75/3 Basella, or Malabar nightshade, with two principal species, Basella rubra and B. alba, bearing red and white flowers respectively.

Malabar nut n. an Indian shrub, Justicia adhatoda (family Acanthaceae), whose leaves are used as an expectorant, antispasmodic, etc.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Acanthaceae (acanthus) > [noun]

sea-docka1400

bear's footc1400

bear claw1543

acanthus1551

brank-ursine1551

bear's breech1565

acanth1648

Malabar nut1694

spirit-leaf1696

spirit weed1699

snap-tree?1711

many-roots1750

ruellia1751

Christmas pride1756

menow weed1756

strobilanthes1836

adelaster1863

bear's breeches1882

1694 J. Peachie Some Observ. Malabar Nutt 4 The strange and almost miraculous Cures..wrought by the Malabar Nutt.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Adhatoda Adhatoda Zeylanensium... The common Malabar Nut.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Adhatoda. The virtue ascribed to the Malabar nut is that of an emmenagogue, and to expel the dead fœtus.

1977 W. H. Lewis & M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis Med. Bot. xii. 301/1 Adhatoda vasica. Leaves of the Malabar nut tree, either dried or fresh, are prescribed as a mucolytic agent in Asia.

Malabar oil n. an oil obtained from the livers of various fishes found off the Malabar Coast.

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1883 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Useful Animals Malabar Oil-Sardine (Clupea longiceps). Large quantities of oil are made from this fish on the coast of Malabar.

1891 G. Watt Dict. Econ. Products India V. 113 The ambiguous term ‘Malabar Oil’ is applied to a mixture of the oil obtained from the livers of several kinds of fish frequenting the Malabar Coast..and the neighbourhood of Karachi.

Malabar plum n. the fruit of the roseapple, Syzygium jambos; the tree itself.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > rose-apple tree

Malabar plum1807

rose apple1809

Malay apple1822

jambu1851

Malacca apple1871

pomerac1919

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I Malabar plum, a fruit which is the produce of the Eugenia jambos. It smells, when ripe, like a rose. In Malabar, where the trees grow plentifully, these plums are in great esteem.

1811 D. Hosack Hortus Elginensis (ed. 2) 22 Eugenia jambos L., Malabar plumb—Pome rose.

1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 1092/1 [Syzygium] Jambos.., Rose apple, Malabar plum.

Malabar rose n. a shrubby Indian hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-malabarica.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hibiscus or mallow trees or shrubs and allies > [noun]

mallowa1400

mallowa1425

shrubbed mallow1597

shrubby mallow1597

shrub mallow1640

mahoe1666

purau1769

Malabar rose1818

rose of Sharon1835

shuttlecock1836

hau1843

cotton tree1876

1818 Bot. Reg. 4 337 (heading) Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. The Malabar rose Hibiscus.

1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 75/1 Malabar rose. Is the Hibiscus rosa Malabarica of Kirby, a fine flowering evergreen shrub, a native of India, belonging to Malvaceæ.

1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. ii. 688/1 Malabar-rose (Bot.), Hibiscus Rosa malabarica.

Malabar spinach n. = Malabar nightshade n.

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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Spinach Indian s[pinach] or Malabar s[pinach], see Malabar nightshade.

1987 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. 61 Basella L. Basellaceae... 1 pantrop. (B. alba L., Malabar spinach or nightshade, Ceylon or Indian spinach) cult. pot-herb poss. not native in Am.

2005 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 3 Aug. (Home & Garden section) 8H Though widely grown as a food crop in tropical parts of Asia, Malabar spinach is less well-known here.

Malabar tallow n. a waxy fat obtained from the seeds of the piney varnish tree, Vateria indica, used in the manufacture of candles and chocolate; also called piney tallow.

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1903 Bull. Imperial Inst. 1 211 Piney or Malabar tallow is obtained from the seeds of Vateria indica, a tree indigenous to the East Indies and Malabar.

1921 C. R. A. Wright Animal & Veg. Fixed Oils (ed. 3) xvi. 630 Piney Tallow. Malabar Tallow..is used in India for illuminating purposes and in the manufacture of soap.

1999 Econ. Times of India (Nexis) 24 May Dhupa fat is obtained from the seed kernels of dhupa also known as Indian copal tree... The fat is known by a number of names, such as Malabar tallow, Piney tallow and Dhupa tallow.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	malabar
释义	Malabarn. Brit. /ˈmaləbɑː/, U.S. /ˈmæləbɑr/ Forms: 1500s– Malabar, 1600s Mallabar, 1800s Malabars (in sense 2). Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese Malabar. Etymology: < Portuguese Malabar the Malabar Coast or one of its inhabitants (1512), the Malayalam language (1551) < Arabic Malaybār the Malabar Coast or its inhabitants (13th cent. or earlier; also in forms Manībār (12th cent.), Mulaybār (14th cent.)) < a Dravidian first element (compare Tamil malai , Malayalam mala : see Malayalam n. and adj.) + Persian bār region, country.The application to the Tamil people and language is after similar use in Portuguese, in which it probably arose from the fact that the Malabar were encountered by the Portuguese earlier than the Tamils, and the name of the language of the one people was hence used also for the closely related language of the other. (For further discussion see H. Yule and A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) at cited word.) In form Malabars (see sense 2) perhaps after Dutch Malabaars; compare Moors n. 1. Predominantly (see etymological note): = Tamil n. 1. Occasionally: †a native or inhabitant of the Malabar Coast of south-west India (obsolete). Chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] > native or inhabitant of India > parts of Malabar1582 Gujaratic1607 Bengalan1613 Goan1652 Hindustan1662 Macassar1665 Gangetic1677 Malabarian1709 Mysorean1761 Bengalese1778 Assamese1794 Hindustani1813 Marwari1815 Sindhi1815 mofussilite1828 Mizo1832 Goanese1835 Punjabi1843 Bengali1848 Sindian1849 Madrasi1851 Toda1851 Hindia1853 Lushai1862 Kashmirian1876 Kashmir1882 Kashmiri1882 Konkani1885 ditcher1886 Ladakhi1893 Bihari1897 Sikkimese1938 Rajasthani1947 Maharashtrian1953 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias f. 37^v They asked of the Malabars which went with him what he was? 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 27 The Mallabars..throwing fire-balls at vs. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 185 These Mallabars..excell in theeuing. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. ix. 159 This Plain is..inhabited by Malabars, a distinct People from the Chingulayes. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 306 A Malabar..conducted them to a Dutch Town. 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. 72 First the Madagascar women,..next to these the Malabars. 1805 R. Semple Walks & Sketches Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) 37 At the Cape..they are no longer merely Malays, or Malabars, or Natives of the coast of Mozambique; they are slaves. 1867 C. J. Boyle Far Away 72 Started on foot up the gorge, our bags on the shoulders of Malabars. 1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier xii. 155 One night his faithful Malabar..woke to the sound of blows. 1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier xii. 155 The Malabar told his tale. 2. = Tamil n. 2, esp. the colloquial variety of the language. Occasionally: †Malayalam (obsolete). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Elamo-Dravidian > [noun] > Dravidian > Tamil-Kodagu > Malabar Malabarian1680 Malabaric1698 Malabarish1717 Malabar1801 1801 T. 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. 1810 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 128 The language spoken at Madras by the natives is the Talinga, here called Malabars. 1837 T. Bacon First Impressions Hindostan I. 99 He was compelled to fall back upon his only two words of Malabar. 1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence i. 12 The Dravidian or Tamulic [groups], including Tamul, Telegu, Malabar, Canaries. 1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier x. 124 Tamil, the pre-Aryan language of southern India, which Francis, Portuguese-fashion, calls Malabar. 3. A kind of brightly coloured cotton handkerchief (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > kerchief > types of rumal1622 bandana1732 Barcelona1761 pulicat1768 fogle1811 kora1833 shawl-handkerchief1838 web1843 foulard1856 waterman1860 Malabar1882 Monteith1882 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. 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. 1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 218/2 Malabar, cotton handkerchief printed in brilliant colors and designs of East Indian type. Compounds C1. General attributive, as Malabar Coast, Malabar language, etc. ΚΠ 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 184 We espied a Mallabar Iuncke of seuentie Tunnes. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 296 Wee found thirty or forty Frigads of Mallabar men of warre. 1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 213 Many of their Women by their usual Custom in these cases..have gain'd the Name of Malabar Quills. 1778 (title) A Grammar for learning the Principles of the Malabar Language. 1794 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (ed. 14) II. 696 Malabar language. 1794 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (ed. 14) II. 696 Malabar coast. 1818 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Aug. 227/2 The Cobra Manilla is known on the Malabar coast as the bangle snake. 1872 tr. St. Francis Xavier's Lett. in H. J. Coleridge Life & Lett. St. Francis Xavier II. 73 Enrico Enriquez..writes and speaks the Malabar tongue. 1900 T. K. Gopal Pannikar Malabar & its Folk v. 74 (heading) Malabar drama. 1946 Mariner's Mirror 32 209 The ordinary Malabar dug-out, called toni in Bombay. 1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor iv. 87 Millicent, the Malabar squirrel. 1967 Times 9 Feb. 2 (advt.) Chinese Carpets and plain deep pile off-white ‘Malabar’ Carpets. 1989 Guardian 21 July 23/4 Romantics..suppose the Jews fetched up on the Malabar coast as part of King Solomon's expeditionary force. C2. In the names of plants, plant products, etc., first encountered on or originally obtained from the Malabar Coast. Malabar bark n. any of various tropical shrubs constituting the genus Ochna (family Ochnaceae). ΚΠ 1868 Paxton's Bot. Dict. (new ed.) 352/1 Malabar-bark, see Ochna. 1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. Malabar bark, any shrub of the genus Ochna, especially O. lucida, a yellow-flowered East-Indian shrub producing succulent fruits: used as a tonic. Malabar catmint n. a plant, Anisomeles malabarica (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), used in South Asia as a tonic and febrifuge. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > other labiate plants dictamnusOE MarrubiumOE dittany1552 water horehound1578 bush basil1597 gypsy herb1726 Perilla1783 gypsywort1787 Malabar catmint1813 chia1832 nettle geranium1860 gas plant1863 coleus1885 1813 W. Ainslie Materia Medica Hindoostan 99 Malabar Cat Mint. Nepeta Malabarica. Lin. Malabar laurel n. an Indo-Malayan evergreen shrub, Melastoma malabathricum (family Melastomataceae), grown for ornament in the East. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > tropical > melastoma or Malabar laurel Melastoma1753 Malabar laurel1882 1882 Garden 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. Malabar leaf n. (also Malabar leaves) the dried leaves of any of several trees of the South Asian genus Cinnamomum, formerly used in medicine; also called Indian leaf. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > malabar leaf Malabar leaf1837 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 75/1 Malabar leaf. Is the Cinnamomum Malabatrum of G. Don. An East India tree, formerly the Laurus Malabatrum of Linnæus. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Cinnamomum Malabathrum, Indian, or Malabar leaf. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Leaf Malabar leaves, the leaves of Cinnamomum nitidum and other species mixed together, formerly used in European medicine. Malabar nightshade n. a whitish- or reddish-flowered, fleshy-leaved, twining plant, Basella alba (family Basellaceae), grown as a pot-herb in tropical Asian countries and eaten like spinach; also with distinguishing word (see red Malabar nightshade n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d)). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > Malabar nightshade basella1731 climbing nightshade1753 Malabar nightshade1760 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > other plants of the Chenopodiaceae blitec1420 strawberry spinach1731 Malabar nightshade1760 tick-seed1760 epazote1848 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Basella Climbing Nightshade from Malabar.] 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 320 Nightshade, Malabar, Basella. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) Index 1204/2 Malabar night-shade, see Basella. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 686/2 The Malabar nightshade is a Basella, which is widely used as a pot-herb in India. 1978 B. N. Bowden in V. H. Heywood Flowering Plants of World 75/3 Basella, or Malabar nightshade, with two principal species, Basella rubra and B. alba, bearing red and white flowers respectively. Malabar nut n. an Indian shrub, Justicia adhatoda (family Acanthaceae), whose leaves are used as an expectorant, antispasmodic, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Acanthaceae (acanthus) > [noun] sea-docka1400 bear's footc1400 bear claw1543 acanthus1551 brank-ursine1551 bear's breech1565 acanth1648 Malabar nut1694 spirit-leaf1696 spirit weed1699 snap-tree?1711 many-roots1750 ruellia1751 Christmas pride1756 menow weed1756 strobilanthes1836 adelaster1863 bear's breeches1882 1694 J. Peachie Some Observ. Malabar Nutt 4 The strange and almost miraculous Cures..wrought by the Malabar Nutt. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Adhatoda Adhatoda Zeylanensium... The common Malabar Nut. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Adhatoda. The virtue ascribed to the Malabar nut is that of an emmenagogue, and to expel the dead fœtus. 1977 W. H. Lewis & M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis Med. Bot. xii. 301/1 Adhatoda vasica. Leaves of the Malabar nut tree, either dried or fresh, are prescribed as a mucolytic agent in Asia. Malabar oil n. an oil obtained from the livers of various fishes found off the Malabar Coast. ΚΠ 1883 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Useful Animals Malabar Oil-Sardine (Clupea longiceps). Large quantities of oil are made from this fish on the coast of Malabar. 1891 G. Watt Dict. Econ. Products India V. 113 The ambiguous term ‘Malabar Oil’ is applied to a mixture of the oil obtained from the livers of several kinds of fish frequenting the Malabar Coast..and the neighbourhood of Karachi. Malabar plum n. the fruit of the roseapple, Syzygium jambos; the tree itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > rose-apple tree Malabar plum1807 rose apple1809 Malay apple1822 jambu1851 Malacca apple1871 pomerac1919 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I Malabar plum, a fruit which is the produce of the Eugenia jambos. It smells, when ripe, like a rose. In Malabar, where the trees grow plentifully, these plums are in great esteem. 1811 D. Hosack Hortus Elginensis (ed. 2) 22 Eugenia jambos L., Malabar plumb—Pome rose. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 1092/1 [Syzygium] Jambos.., Rose apple, Malabar plum. Malabar rose n. a shrubby Indian hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-malabarica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hibiscus or mallow trees or shrubs and allies > [noun] mallowa1400 mallowa1425 shrubbed mallow1597 shrubby mallow1597 shrub mallow1640 mahoe1666 purau1769 Malabar rose1818 rose of Sharon1835 shuttlecock1836 hau1843 cotton tree1876 1818 Bot. Reg. 4 337 (heading) Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. The Malabar rose Hibiscus. 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 75/1 Malabar rose. Is the Hibiscus rosa Malabarica of Kirby, a fine flowering evergreen shrub, a native of India, belonging to Malvaceæ. 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. ii. 688/1 Malabar-rose (Bot.), Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. Malabar spinach n. = Malabar nightshade n. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Spinach Indian s[pinach] or Malabar s[pinach], see Malabar nightshade. 1987 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. 61 Basella L. Basellaceae... 1 pantrop. (B. alba L., Malabar spinach or nightshade, Ceylon or Indian spinach) cult. pot-herb poss. not native in Am. 2005 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 3 Aug. (Home & Garden section) 8H Though widely grown as a food crop in tropical parts of Asia, Malabar spinach is less well-known here. Malabar tallow n. a waxy fat obtained from the seeds of the piney varnish tree, Vateria indica, used in the manufacture of candles and chocolate; also called piney tallow. ΚΠ 1903 Bull. Imperial Inst. 1 211 Piney or Malabar tallow is obtained from the seeds of Vateria indica, a tree indigenous to the East Indies and Malabar. 1921 C. R. A. Wright Animal & Veg. Fixed Oils (ed. 3) xvi. 630 Piney Tallow. Malabar Tallow..is used in India for illuminating purposes and in the manufacture of soap. 1999 Econ. Times of India (Nexis) 24 May Dhupa fat is obtained from the seed kernels of dhupa also known as Indian copal tree... The fat is known by a number of names, such as Malabar tallow, Piney tallow and Dhupa tallow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1582
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