← All words
Dictionary

Mahé

proper noun

Mahé (a small town in Mahé district in the union territory of Puducherry, India); Mahé (former French enclave comprising the town of Mahé and a few neigbouring towns, in the colonial part of French India)

Borrowed from Malayalam മയ്യഴി (mayyaḻi), the name given to the local river and region.

proper noun

Mahé (the largest island of the Seychelles)

Named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France (modern Mauritius).