Mala Explained

Mala may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

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

Films and television

• Mala (1941 film), a Bollywood drama film
• , a Yugoslav drama film with Danilo Stojković
• Mala (2013 film), an Argentine crime film

Music

• , a 2002 Greek soundtrack album by Anna Vissi
  • "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (song), a song from the album
• Mala (Yolandita Monge album), 2008
  • "Mala" (Yolandita Monge song), a song from the album
• Mala (Devendra Banhart album), 2013
• "Mala" (6ix9ine song), 2018
• "Mala", a song by Maluma from Magia (Maluma album), 2012
• "Mala", a song by Peso Pluma from Éxodo, 2024
• Mala Records, a record label

Languages

• Mala language, a Papuan language
• Mala language (Nigeria), a language of Nigeria

People

Given name

• Mala (Pakistani singer) (1939–1990), Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films
• Mala Aravindan (1939–2015), Malayalam film actor
• Mala Gaonkar (born 1969), American businessperson
• Mala Htun (1969 or 1970–2025), American political scientist
• Mala Kachalla (1941–2007), former governor of Borno State in Nigeria
• Mala Powers (1931–2007), American actress
• Mala Rodríguez, also known as La Mala, La Mala María, Spanish hip hop rapper
• Mala Roy, Indian politician
• 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

Nickname

• Malá (footballer) (born 1979), Bissau-Guinean football midfielder
• Mala (musician), a member of Deep Dub duo Digital Mystikz

Surname

• Doueugui Mala (born 1993), Ivorian footballer
• Esat Mala (born 1998), Albanian footballer
• Ray Mala (1906–1952), Native American movie actor
• Shormi Mala, Bangladeshi stage, television and film actress
• Zef Mala (1915–1979), Albanian publicist and communist activist

Places

Asia

• Mala, Homalin, a village in Burma
• Mala, Kerala, a village in southern India
• Mala, Nepal, a village and village development committee
• Mala, a village in Jaghori District, Ghazni, Afghanistan

Europe

• Mała, a village in Poland
• Mäla, a village in western Estonia
• Mala, Sweden, a village
• Malå Municipality, in northern Sweden
• Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, a town

South America

• Mala District, Peru
  • Mala, Cañete Province, capital of the district

Elsewhere

• Mala, Lanzarote, a village in the Canary Islands
• Malaita or Mala, an island of the Solomon Islands

Other uses

• Chera dynasty or Mala, South India
• Cyclone Mala, a cyclonic storm that killed 22 people in Burma in 2006
• Japamala, also known as mala, a loop of prayer beads commonly used in several Indian religions
• Mala (caste) or Mala community, from Andhra Pradesh
• Mala (river), a small tributary of the Danube in Romania
• Mala (seasoning) (麻辣, or málà), a numbing and spicy Chinese seasoning made from chillies and Sichuan pepper
• Malå IF, Swedish football club located in Malå in Västerbotten County
• Mala story, an Aboriginal Dreamtime story of central Australia
• Metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA)
• Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA), a Markov chain Monte Carlo method
• Rufous hare-wallaby or mala, a small wallaby native to Australia
• R-1 and R-2 Mala-class swimmer delivery vehicle, a Yugoslav and Croatian vessel type

See also

• Japamala, often shortened to mala, religious beads
• Mala Mala (disambiguation)
• Malla (disambiguation)
• Malaa, Bangladeshi-Australian singer