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Borrowed from Sanskrit अभिरुचि (abhiruci).
അഭിരുചി • (abhiruci)
- liking; predilection; taste; aptitude
- interest, inclination; ambition
- desire
- Gundert, Hermann (1872) “അഭിരുചി”, in A Malayalam and English dictionary, Mangalore, London: C. Stolz; Trübner & Co.