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US
/məˈɫeɪən/
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ADJECTIVE
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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 -
of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia
Malayan crocodiles
Malaysian police crack down hard on drug smugglers
NOUN
- a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
How To Use Malayan In A Sentence
- The houfes of the town of Puna are built on pofts ten or twelve feet high, into which they go up by ladders, and are thatched with palmeto-leaves: the like contriv - ance I have feen among the Malayans in the Eaft Indies. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
- Malayan barn owls are adapting quickly to this rich habitat and are reproducing much faster than elsewhere.
- These subtropical forests were then defined as the Himalayan Subtropical Broadleaf Forests. Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
- Himalayan balsam's pink flowers are an attractive sight on the river's edge but it is a menace that needs to be stopped in its tracks.
- Himalayan shikar reserves; surveys and management proposals. Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
- A lime tree there is already turning a beautiful bright yellow, and a large Himalayan spindle bush is taking on rich red and pink colouring.
- So it's not a virus that every Himalayan palm civet has always had and is chronically infected with.
- Like oxygen bottles on Everest and increasing Himalayan tourism, bolting is something which has to be controlled.
- Genetic information shows that the species, Canis aureus lupaster, is more closely related to Indian and Himalayan wolves than golden jackals.
- When moving, the Malayan tapir walks slowly with its head down, which probably allows it to pick up the scents of other tapirs.
