Malayan

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Ma·lay

(mə-lā′, mā′lā′)

1. A member of a people inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago.

2. The Austronesian language of the Malays. Also called Bahasa Melayu.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Malays or their language.

2. Of or relating to Malaysia, the Malay Peninsula, or the Malay Archipelago.

[Obsolete Dutch Malayo, from Malay Melayu.]

Ma·lay′an (mə-lā′ən) adj. & n.

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Malayan

(məˈleɪən)

adj

(Placename) of or relating to Malaya or its inhabitants

(Placename) a native or inhabitant of Malaya

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Ma•lay•an

(məˈleɪ ən)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to Malays, the Malay Peninsula, or the Malay Archipelago.

2. Malay.

3. any native or inhabitant of the Malay states or the Federation of Malaya.

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Noun	1.	Malayan - a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago Malay East India, East Indies, Malay Archipelago - a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia Malaya, Malaysia - a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957 Malay Peninsula - a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar Asian, Asiatic - a native or inhabitant of Asia
Adj.	1.	Malayan - of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia; "Malaysian police crack down hard on drug smugglers"; "Malayan crocodiles" Malaysian
	2.	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" Malay

Translations

μαλαϊκά μαλαϊκός

malais

Malayan

[məˈleɪən]

A. ADJ → malayo

B. N → malayo/a m/f

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Malayan

adj → malaiisch

n → Malaie m, → Malaiin f

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References in classic literature ?

MALAYAN ARCHIPELAGO--Lights unreliable owing eruptions.

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It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions.

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He had been caught somewhere in the Malayan Archipelago, and was going to England to be exhibited at a shilling a head.

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He imposed food restrictions against uncooperative Malayans in Tanjong Malim.

Leon Comber, Templer and the Road to Malayan Independence.

Recent books on Malayan independence

If you were found with communist literature in your house, you were arrested: the British armed forces converted peasant villages into prison camps for Chinese and Malayans suspected of supplying the insurgents.

Agnes Khoo (ed) Life as the River Flows: Women in the Malayan AntiColonial Struggle, London, Merlin Press, 2007, ISBN 9780850365634, 312pp

Agnes Khoo (ed): Life as the River Flows: Women in the Malayan Anti-Colonial Struggle

There are almost as many Sunni Arabs as there were Malayans. Moreover, unlike Malaya's small and easily sequestered villages, Iraq's population largely resides in relatively large, contiguous urban areas.

The key element of their success was the effective internment of the Chinese "squatter" population, the segment of Malayan society from which the insurgents almost entirely drew their strength.

Draining the swamp: the British strategy of population control

Mapaa donates school chairs made from recycled wastes !-- -- (The Philippine Star) - July 4, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines Malayan Colleges Mindanao (MCM) donated 100 armchairs made solely from recycled plastics to Matina Aplaya Elementary School in a turnover ceremony held recently.