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Malayalam

noun
1.
A Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India.





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"Malayalam" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the first Portuguese who had to do with eagle-wood called it by its Arabic name, aghaluhy, or malayalam, agila; whence pao de' aguila "aguila wood." It was translated into Latin as lignum aquilae, and after into modern languages, as bois d'aigle, eagle-wood, adlerholz, etc. (A. Cabaton, les Chams, p. 50.) Mr. Groeneveldt (Notes, pp. 141-142) writes: "Lignum aloes is the wood ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa


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