"Maraicayar,''Marikar'', Marakayar, Maraicar, \"Maricar\", \"Marecar\",\"Marican\" (\u0BAE\u0BB0\u0BC8\u0B95\u0BCD\u0B95\u0BBE\u0BAF\u0BB0\u0BCD) maraikalam(wooden boat)+rayar(king) or Moor is a distinctive Tamil and Malayalam-speaking Muslim people of the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India and Sri Lanka. According to many other historians, Moppila or Moplah is Maha Pillai (great son) and Marakkar means (Marakkalam is a wooden boat) \u2018boatmen\u2019."@en .