There are a few words of Persian origin in Malayalam, though it is possible many of them could have been indirectly loaned from Urdu. Greece, Greek (Likely to be derived from "Ionian", the Greeks who lived in Asia Minor)
The Hebrew language contributes a large number of words into a dialect form of Judeo-Malayalam that is spoken by the Cochin Jewish community of Kerala. There are more than 900 words taken from Arabic and some are commonly used in spoken and literary forms of Malayalam.
There are also many common words which are used throughout all communities of Kerala. The Arabic language contributes a large number of words into a dialect form of Malayalam, called Arabi Malayalam that is spoken by the Muslim Mappila community of North Kerala. See also: Arabi Malayalam and Arabi Malayalam script This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. According to Sooranad Kunjan Pillai who compiled the authoritative Malayalam lexicon, the other principal languages whose vocabulary was incorporated over the ages were Arabic, Dutch, Pali, Persian, Portuguese, Prakrit, Syriac, and Urdu. This included trading contacts with Arabia, Persia, Levant, Europe, and China spanning millennia, and with European colonial powers for several centuries. Loan words in Malayalam, excluding the huge number of words from Sanskrit originated mostly due to the centuries long interactions between the native population of Kerala and the trading (predominantly, spice trading) powers of the world.
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