malacca

1. 1.

   stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles

   Broadercane

   Part ofrattan
2. 2.

   the third smallest Malaysian state; located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula

   BroaderMalaysian state

   Part ofWest Malaysia
3. 3.

   a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm

   Synonymsmalacca cane

   Broadercane

Other forms of malacca

plural

malaccas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about malacca

What does malacca mean?

malacca means "stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malacca?

malacca has 3 syllables: ma-lac-ca. The stress falls on "lac". In IPA it is /məˈlækə/.

What is another word for malacca?

Close synonyms include malacca cane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malacca a common word?

malacca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.