Definitions of Malay [ˈmeɪ leɪ, məˈleɪ]

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Definition of 'Malay'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Malay
a member of a people of Southeast Asia comprising the principal inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, adjacent parts of E Sumatra, and the intervening islands and living in many coastal settlements on Borneo, Sumatra, and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.

2. Malay
the Austronesian language of the Malays.

Definition of 'Malay'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Malay, Malayan
a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

2. (adj) Malay
a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages

3. (adj) Malay, Malayan
of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
"Malay peoples"; "Malayan syllable structure"

Definition of 'Malay'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Malay
alt. of Malayan

2. (noun) Malay
one of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago

'Malay' - Nearby Entries
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