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Malayan

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malaynounOf 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.
malaysiannounA native of Malaysia.

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malaysiannounA native of Malaysia.
malaysianounA country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Kuala Lumpur.
malayanoun(historical) A former colony and later a former independent country in Southeast Asia, existing on the southern part of the Malay Peninsula from 1948 to 1963; independent from 1957 and merged in 1963 with the territories of East Malaysia, forming modern Malaysia; in full, Federation of Malaya.
malaisenounA feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
discomfortnounMental or bodily distress.
malayanistnoun(dated) Someone who studied Malaya (later, Malaysia).
malaccannounOf or relating to Malacca.
malawiannounOf, from, or pertaining to Malawi or the Malawian people.
malayanizationnounThe act or process of making something Malayan.
maliannounA person from Mali or of Malian descent.
msiannounAbbreviation of Malaysian. [Pertaining to the country of Malaysia.]
bumiputranoun(Malaysia) a citizen of Malaysia having indigenous Malayan or Borneo ancestry.
malabariannounSomeone from Malabar.
maldiviannounOf, from, or pertaining to the Maldives, the Maldivian people or the Maldivian language.
malaŵiannoun(rare, scholarly) Alternative spelling of Malawian. [Of, from, or pertaining to Malawi or the Malawian people.]
malaysianizationnounThe act or process of making something Malaysian.
malukannounA native or inhabitant of the Maluku Islands.
deutero-malaynoun(historical) A member of an Iron Age people regarded as direct ancestors of the present-day Malay people.
mallunoun(India, informal, sometimes derogatory) A person from the Indian state of Kerala, especially one who speaks Malayalam or is ethnically Malayali.
malaitannounA native or inhabitant of Malaita.

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