Malaia — meaning in English

English meaning

• Malay adj Relating to the Malay people, an ethnic group native to the Malay Peninsula and parts of nearby islands.
• Malaya name A historical region and former British territory on the Malay Peninsula, now part of Malaysia.

Senses

Malaia is used for these senses in English:

• Malay Of 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.
• Malay (countable) A person of Malay ancestry, referring to a diverse group of Austronesian peoples inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.
• Malaya (historical) A peninsula and geographic region of Southeast Asia constituting the southern part of the Malay Peninsula and several nearby islands, currently forming the western part of Malaysia; now known as West Malaysia or Peninsular Malaysia.

Malay — full definition

1. adj Relating to the Malay people, an ethnic group native to the Malay Peninsula and parts of nearby islands.
2. noun A member of the Malay ethnic group, or the Malay language itself.

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