Mala

Mala may refer to:

Places

• Mala, a village in Jaghori District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
• Mala, Homalin, a village in Burma
• Mala, Lanzarote, a village in the Canary Islands
• Chera dynasty or mala, South India
• Mala, Kerala, a village in southern India
• Mala, Nepal, a village and Village Development Committee
• Mala District, Peru
  • Mala, Cañete Province, capital of Mala District, Peru
  • Mala River (Peru), a river of Peru
• Mała, a village in Poland
• Mala River, in Romania
• Malaita or Mala, an island of the Solomon Islands
• Mala, Sweden, a village
• Malå Municipality, in northern Sweden

Music

• Mala (Pakistani singer) (1939–1990)
• Mala Records, a record label
• Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou, a 2002 Greek soundtrack album by Anna Vissi
  • "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (song)
• Mala (Yolandita Monge album), 2008
  • "Mala" (song)
• Mala (Devendra Banhart album)
• Mala, member of dubstep duo Digital Mystikz

Comics

• Mala (Kryptonian), a villain from the Superman universe
• Mala (Amazon), an Amazon from the DC Universe

Other uses

• Mala (caste) or Mala community, from Andhra Pradesh
• Mala (2013 film), a 2013 Argentine crime film
• Mala (1941 film), a Bollywood drama film
• Malá (footballer) (born 1979), Bissau-Guinean football midfielder
• Cyclone Mala, a cyclonic storm that killed 22 people in Burma in 2006
• Mala people
• Mala sauce, a Chinese sauce
• Master of Arts in Liberal Arts
• Metformin-associated lactic acidosis, a medical condition
• Garland or mala, used in India
• Rufous hare-wallaby or mala, a small wallaby native to Australia

People with the name

• Ray Mala (1906–1952), first Native American movie star
• Mala Aravindan, Malayalam film actor
• Mala Gaonkar, American businessperson
• Mala Kachalla (1941–2007), former governor of Borno State in Nigeria
• Mala Powers (1931–2007), American actress
• Mala Sinha (born 1936), Indian actress
• Mala Zimetbaum (1922–1944), Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent executed for escaping from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

See also

• Japa mala (disambiguation)