Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Malacca or the Malay peninsula or the people inhabiting that region; Malay.
  • noun Same as Malay.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a person from Malaysia or the former Malaya; a Malay
  • adjective of, or relating to Malaysia or the former Malaya; Malay

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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
  • noun a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia

Etymologies

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Malaya +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Crossings with so-called Malayan Dwarfs have given good results in this respect.

    1. Oil Plants and their Potential Use 1989

  • Because the tactical situation and the vegetation in Korea were not conducive to the use of aerially sprayed herbicides (although mosquito spraying took place there), the next armed conflict in which herbicides found significant use was the British campaign against communist guerrillas in Malaya, formally known as the Malayan Emergency.

    Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

  • Borneo, Celebes, Sooloo, the Moluccas, and the islands of the Straits of Sunda and Banka, compose what is called the Malayan group; and the Malays located on the sea-shores of these and other islands may with certainty be classed as belonging to one people.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • Arabians and the Malays, while the Malayan was the very first of the far Eastern countries to adopt the Mohammedan religion and customs.

    Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882

  • East Indies, the most western of those which may be termed the Malayan

    The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

  • Gentile knows that there are phases to campaigns, and one particular paper that has been influential in my thinking (given to me by Gentile) is from The Journal of Strategic Studies, entitled The Malayan Emergency as

    Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. 2010

  • What has not been generally noted, however, is the fact that nearly all the peoples of eastern Mindanao, usually described as "Malayan" or "Indonesian," are to a large degree Negrito.

    The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

  • Malaysia's top financial services group, Malayan Banking Bhd., or Maybank, announced in January that it plans to buy a 44% stake in the brokerage, raising the issue of whether to sell for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities.

    Mitsubishi UFJ Brokerage Unit Weighs Sale of Kim Eng Stake Atsuku Fukase 2011

  • Shares of Yuanta Financial rose 3.5% after it announced that it will fetch a 7.19 billion New Taiwan dollars in profit from a planned sale of its entire stake in Singapore brokerage firm Kim Eng to Malaysia's Malayan Banking, or Maybank.

    Nikkei Up on U.S. Jobs Data Colin Ng 2011

  • Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings will sell its 29% stake in Kim Eng after Malayan Banking Bhd., known as Maybank, had expressed its intention to buy out the Singapore brokerage earlier this year, Tsutomu Tanaka , deputy president of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings, told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview Monday.

    MUFG Unit Ends Kim Eng Tie-Up Atsuko Fukase 2011

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