A Topical Dictionary: Search for Malay

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Malay \Ma*lay"\, prop. n.
One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay
Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
[1913 Webster] Malay

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Malay \Ma*lay"\, Malayan \Ma*lay"an\, prop. a.
Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. -- n. The
Malay language.
[1913 Webster]

Malay apple (Bot.), a myrtaceous tree ({Eugenia
Malaccensis}) common in India; also, its applelike fruit.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet malay
adj : 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; "Malay
peoples"; "Malayan syllable structure" [syn: Malayan]
n 1: a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula
and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
[syn: Malayan]
2: a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages