Malay definition, of, relating to, or characteristic of a racially intermixed people who are the dominant population of the Malay Peninsula and adjacent islands.
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/ ˈmeɪ leɪ, məˈleɪ /
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a racially intermixed people who are the dominant population of the Malay Peninsula and adjacent islands.
of or relating to the language or culture of these people.
noun
an Austronesian language of Malaysia and Singapore, differing from Indonesian only in orthography.
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Examples from the Web for malay
Kuching means ‘Cat City’ in Malay; nobody will look sideways at those who hug street strays or shriek ‘pusspusspuss!’
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As we'd once left Singapore, now Laila and I had recently been considering moving from the Malay Peninsula altogether.
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We might have created a force large enough to clear the Malay Peninsula, then Southeast Asia, and from there, who knows?
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Malay Kris likewise ate his bravely and became small accordingly.
The hut was occupied by a Malay and his wife, from whom our informant gathered the following extraordinary account.
The Malay bent his head from above downwards, and disentangling his right hand from his shawl, he pointed imperiously to the door.
Qualla Battoo is the name of a small Malay town, which stood on the northwestern coast of Sumatra.
Isolated and remote, but over one way was the coast of Indo-China, and over the other way was the coast of Malay.
British Dictionary definitions formalaynoun
a member of a people living chiefly in Malaysia and Indonesia who are descendants of Mongoloid immigrants
the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family
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Word Origin and History formalayn.1590s, from native name Malayu. As an adjective from 1779; earlier adjective form was Malayan (1660s).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper