Malabar

Tamil place-name

"mountain country"

Malabar Origin and Meaning

The name Malabar is a girl's name meaning "mountain country".

Malabar is the southwestern coastal region of India, one of the wettest areas of the Indian subcontinent. E.M. Forster's great novel A Passage to India turns on a dramatic event in the mystical Malabar Hills. The spelling Malibar is sometimes found.