different between malai vs malar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ???? (mal??).

Noun

malai (uncountable)

1. (cooking) An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.

Anagrams

• Lamia, Malia, ilama, lamia, malia

Catalan

Etymology

From English Malay, from Malay Melayu.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m??laj/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?laj/
• Hyphenation: ma?lai

Adjective

malai (feminine malaia, masculine plural malais, feminine plural malaies)

1. Malay (pertaining to the Malay Peninsula, to the Malay people, or to the Malay language)

Derived terms

• península Malaia (“Malay Peninsula”)

Noun

malai m (plural malais, feminine malaia)

1. Malay (an individual of the Malay people)

malai m (uncountable)

1. Malay (a Malayic language of Malaysia)

Latvian

Noun

malai f

1. dative singular form of mala

Malay

Noun

malai (Jawi spelling ??????, plural malai-malai, informal 1st possessive malaiku, impolite 2nd possessive malaimu, 3rd possessive malainya)

1. garland, especially an elaborate one adorned with gold, gemstones etc.

References

• “malai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

English

Etymology

From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?l?/
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Adjective

malar (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the cheek.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     Whose? Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance.

Translations

Noun

malar (plural malars)

1. (anatomy) The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

Translations

Anagrams

• LRAAM, Lamar, Marla, alarm, marla, ramal

Icelandic

Etymology 1

Noun

malar

1. indefinite genitive singular of möl

Etymology 2

Verb

malar

1. inflection of mala:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular present indicative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

malar m

1. indefinite plural of mal

Etymology 2

Verb

malar

1. (non-standard since 2012) present of mala

Etymology 3

Noun

malar m (definite singular malaren, indefinite plural malarar, definite plural malarane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by målar

Anagrams

• larma

Old Norse

Noun

malar

1. genitive singular indefinite of m?lr m
2. genitive singular indefinite of m?l f

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mala (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.?la?/

Noun

malar m (plural malares)

1. (anatomy, dated) cheekbone; zygoma

   Synonyms: zigomático, zigoma

Hypernyms

• osso

Adjective

malar m or f (plural malares, comparable)

1. cheekbone; zygoma (attributive)

Related terms

• bochecha
• maçã do rosto
• pómelo

Romanian

Etymology

From French malaire.

Adjective

malar m or n (feminine singular malar?, masculine plural malari, feminine and neuter plural malare)

1. malar

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

malar (plural malares)

1. malar

Swedish

Noun

malar

1. indefinite plural of mal

Anagrams

• almar, larma, ramla

Yagara

Noun

malar

1. man

References

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.