Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Mohammedan inhabitant of Malabar in southwestern India, descended from Arabs who settled there and married native women.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
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Examples
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Gandhian words sound good in speeches but for all his talks of peace Gandhi did not help the millions dying in the streets due to Islam's violence whether it was the moplah riots or the partition and the other zillion riots started by Islam.
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He says: "As it grew older it took to going about by itself, and one day found its way to the bazaar and seized a large fish from a moplah.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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