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MALAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Malay" is a kind of...):
Western Malayo-Polynesian (a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Malay"):
Bahasa Kebangsaan; Bahasa Malaysia; Bahasa Melayu; Malaysian (the Malay language spoken in Malaysia)
Bahasa; Bahasa Indonesia; Indonesian (the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia)
Derivation:
Malay (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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
Synonyms:
Malay; Malayan
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Malay" is a kind of...):
Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Holonyms ("Malay" is a member of...):
East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)
Federation of Malaysia; 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)
Derivation:
Malay (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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Example:
Malayan syllable structure
Synonyms:
Malay; Malayan
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Malay (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)
Derivation:
Malay (a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Malay (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)
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