Borrowed from Arabic مَلَامَة (malāma), via Persian. Cognate to Urdu مَلَامَت (malāmat)
- IPA(key): /ma.laː.maːt̪/, [mä.laː.mæːʔ]
- Hyphenation: މަ‧ލާ‧މާތް
މަލާމާތް • (malāmāt̊) (plural މަލާމާތްތައް (malāmāt̊tak̊))
- ridicule, sarcasm, mockery, taunt, twit, gibe, derision, affront
- Synonym: ހަޖޫ (hajū)
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “މަލާމާތް”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 166