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n. A thick paste made from yam skin, eaten chiefly in Yoruba cuisine
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Amala is a mythological giant who supports the world in the mythology of the Tsimshian, Nass, Skidegate, Kaigani, Massett, and Tlingit Native Americans. He supports the Earth which he balances on a spinning pole. He receives an annual application of wild duck-oil to his muscles from a servant which brings relief to his muscles. The belief is that when all the ducks are hunted out, there will no longer be any duck-oil available in the world. At this point, Amala dies and the world topples off the pole and comes to an end.
Amala may refer to:
- Amala (actress), South Indian actress
- Amala Paul (born 1991), South Indian actress
- Amala and Kamala, two girls discovered in 1920, who were supposedly raised by wolves in India
- Amala (food), a food in West parts of Africa
- Amala Institute of Medical Sciences in Thrissur, India
- Amala (mythology), a Native American mythological giant
- Amala, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran
- Amala Nagar, a village in Kerala, India
- Seeds of the Nectandra trees, used in pre-Columbian South American ritual
- Scopula amala, a moth of family Geometridae
- Amala Chebolu
- Amala Rose Kurian
- Amala Shankar (born 1919)
Àmàlà is a Nigerian food made out of yam flour and/or cassava flour. Yam flour is yam that has been peeled, sliced, cleaned, dried and then blended into a flour, also called elubo. Yam is white in colour but it turns into a brownish colour after it has been dried; this gives àmàlà its thick brown colour. Àmàlà is derived from Western Africa and is eaten mostly by the Yoruba people in Nigeria. It could be served with a variety of ọbẹ (soup), such as ẹfọ, ilá, ewédú, ogbono or gbegiri ( black-eyed beans soup).
Amala Akkineni (née Mukherjee) is a former Indian film actress, Bharata Natyam dancer, and an animal welfare activist. She is best known for her works in Tamil cinema, and Telugu cinema. She has also starred in few Malayalam, Kannada, and Bollywood films. She has won two Filmfare Awards South, and a CineMAA Award. Amala is the co-founder of The Blue Cross of Hyderabad, a non-government organisation (NGO) in Hyderabad, India, which works towards the welfare of animals and preservation of animal rights in India.
Amala (ml; അമല) is an Indian television series which launched on Mazhavil Manorama channel. Actress Varadha essays the role of the main protagonist of the series. The show telecast its final episode on 30 January 2015.
Usage examples of "amala".
The two women had taken an instant dislike to one another upon meeting many years before and that dislike had grown steadily worse since Amala had become the consort of Commodore Lexis, the OIC of the Ministry of Public Education.
There can be little doubt that the Goths who were minded to revolt from the son of Triarius and who were not to be received into favour by the Emperor, were Ostrogoths, still dimly conscious of the old tie which bound them to the glorious house of Amala, and more than half disposed to forsake the service of their squinting upstart chief in order to follow the banners of the young hero, son of Theudemir.
When Amala contacted me and described you, I knew just who you must be.
A newer, more recent offshoot of Islam, the Amala were trying to breed themselves into the majority.
The Amala were the least educated of the mostly dirt-stupid bunch, and paid for it.
What do you call an Amala who can read at the level of a five-year-old?
Veniva took the cup from Seriol and offered the welcome of the house to Amala and Gomoarions-son, and then to Raul and last to Father Cinwil.