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
• 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
• Mäla, a village in western Estonia

Music

• Mala (Pakistani singer) (1939–1990), Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films
• Mala Records, a record label
• Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou, a 2002 Greek soundtrack album by Anna Vissi
  • "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (song), a single by Anna Vissi from the original soundtrack of the same name, released in 2002 by Sony Music in Greece and Cyprus
• Mala (Yolandita Monge album), 2008
  • "Mala" (song), the first single from Yolandita's 31st studio album, Mala. This song was written by Maria Isabel Saavedra and produced by Jose Luis Pagan. The Yolandita new single “Mala”, was released on October 6, 2008 on national radio
• Mala (Devendra Banhart album), the eighth studio album by folk-rock musician Devendra Banhart, released on March 12, 2013 on Nonesuch Records. The album was produced by Banhart and Noah Georgeson, and mastered by Greg Calbi
• Mala, member of dubstep duo Digital Mystikz

Comics

• Mala (Kryptonian), a villain from Superman's corner of the DC Universe
• Mala (Amazon), an Amazon from Wonder Woman's side of the DC Universe

Other uses

• Garland or mala, used in India
• Buddhist prayer beads, called māla "garland" in Sanskrit and Pali
• Hindu prayer beads, called māla "garland" in Sanskrit
• 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 sauce, a Chinese sauce
• Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, a graduate degree that aims to provide both depth and breadth of study in the liberal arts
• Metformin-associated lactic acidosis, a medical condition
• Rufous hare-wallaby or mala, a small wallaby native to Australia
• Mala - Byproducts and wastes according to Ayurveda

People

• Ray Mala (1906–1952), first Native American movie star
• Mala Aravindan (1939–2015), 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)