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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अभ्यास (abhyāsa).
അഭ്യാസം • (abhyāsaṁ)
- exercise
- physical exercise
- Godavarma, K. (1946) “അഭ്യാസം”, in Indo-Aryan loanwords in Malayalam, Thiruvanathapuram: Head of department of Malayalam, page 155