मलाई

Derived from Arabic مَلَأَ (malaʔa, “to stack, to fill”). Alternatively, derived from Sanskrit मण्ड (maṇḍa, “thick cream”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /mə.lɑː.iː/, [mɐ.läː.iː]

मलाई • (malāī) f (Urdu spelling ملائی)

1. malai, cream (cooking ingredient made from milk)

• रस मलाई (ras malāī)
• मलाईदार (malāīdār)

• → Burmese: မလိုင် (ma.luing)
• → English: malai

• कोफ़्ता (koftā)
• क़ुल्फ़ी (qulfī)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मलाई”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 559-60
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “manda”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

• IPA^(key): [mʌläi̯]
• Phonetic Devanagari: मलाइ

मलाई • (malāī)

1. dative of म (ma)