Malay definition

mə-lā, mālā
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Malays or their language.
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Of or relating to Malaysia, the Malay Peninsula, or the Malay Archipelago.
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A member of a large group of indigenous peoples of the Malay Peninsula, the Malay Archipelago, and nearby islands.
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The Western Austronesian family of languages of these peoples, including the official languages of Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Of the Malays or their language or culture.
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(law) Abbreviation of Malaysia.
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A member of a people inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago.
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The Austronesian language of the Malays.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
malay
Plural:
malays

Origin of malay

  • Obsolete Dutch Malayo from Malay Melayu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Malay Sentence Examples

  • Four great intercontinental enclosed seas are included between adjacent continents - the Arctic Sea, the Central American or West Indian Sea, the Australo-Asiatic or Malay Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

  • The Australian Shelf rises steeply as a rule from depths, of 2500 to 3000 fathoms. A broad depression with depths of from 3300 to 3500 fathoms lies to the east of the Cocos Islands and extends into the angle between the Malay Archipelago and Australia.

  • Max Weber states that blue mud occurs in the deep basins of the eastern part of the Malay Sea.

  • The fresher enclosed seas include the Malay and the East Asiatic fringing seas with 30 to 34.5 per mille, the Gulf of St Lawrence with 30 to 31, the North Sea with 35 north of the Dogger Bank diminishing to 32 further south, and the Baltic, which freshens rapidly from between 25 to 31 in the Skagerrak to 7 or 8 eastward of Bornholm and to practically fresh water at the heads of the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland.

  • Curve B shows the typical distribution of temperature in an enclosed sea, in this case the Sulu Basin of the Malay Sea, where from the level of the barrier to the bottom the temperature remains uniform or homothermic. Curve C shows a typical summer condition in the polar seas, where layers of sea-water at different temperatures are superimposed, the arrangement from the surface to 200 fathoms is termed FIG.

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