Malay Common

Malay has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Definitions

Noun

a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

Malay Malayan

a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages

Malay

A person of Malay ancestry, referring to a diverse group of Austronesian peoples inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.

Adjective

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"

Malay Malayan

Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago and the coastal areas of Kalimantan in Indonesia, in most of Malaysia (states where they are politically dominant), in Singapore and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.