Malabar

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
  • North Malabar
• 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

• Malabar, 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