malabar

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• IPA^(key): /ma.la.baʁ/

malabar m (plural malabars)

1. (colloquial) bruiser (very large, muscular man)
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Leurs voix sonnaient calmes et surprises, au début, suite à l’arrivée soudaine des quatre malabars : […]

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• “malabar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /malaˈbaɾ/ [ma.laˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧la‧bar

malabar m or f (masculine and feminine plural malabares)

1. (relational) of Malabar

malabar m (uncountable)

1. Malayalam (language)

   Synonym: malayalam

• “malabar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024