mála n. (in later language also m.; prob. fr. √ mlai) dirt, filth, dust, impurity (physical and moral), [AV.] &c. &c.
(in med.) any bodily excretion or secretion (esp. those of the Dhātus q.v., described as phlegm from chyle, bile from the blood, nose mucus and ear wax from the flesh, perspiration from the fat, nails and hair from the bones, rheum of the eye from the brain; cf. also the 12 impurities of the body enumerated in [Mn. v, 135]), [Suśr.]; [Vāgbh.] &c.
(with Śaivas), original sin, natural impurity, [Sarvad.]
camphor, [L.]
Os Sepiae, [L.]
mála m. the son of a Śūdra and a Mālukī, [L.]
mála n. tanned leather, a leathern or dirty garment (?), [RV. x, 136, 2]
a kind of brass or bell-metal, [L.]
the tip of a scorpion's tail, [L.] (v.l. ala)
mála mfn. dirty, niggardly, [L.]
unbelieving, godless, [L.]
[cf. Gk. μέλας; Lat. mǎlus; Lith. mólis, mélynas.]