malabar
French, noun/ma.la.baʁ/
malabar is spelled M-A-L-A-B-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malabar is a French masculine noun meaning “bruiser (very large, muscular man)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personnage costaud”.
What does malabar mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinebruiser (very large, muscular man)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à Malabar. 2. Relatif aux chrétiens de rite oriental, de l'État de Kerala en Inde méridionale. 3. Fort, costaud.
noun: 1. Personnage costaud. 2. Personnage important. 3. Gros chewing-gum de couleur rose, dont le logo est un jeune homme costaud.
noun: 1. Variante de Malbar.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of malabar
- malabars plural
- malabare singular feminine
- malabares plural feminine
- Malabars plural masculine feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malabar?
- /ma.la.baʁ/
- \ma.la.baʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malabar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malabar in French?
malabar appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).