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malay

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1. malay - Noun

2. malay - Adjective

3. Malay - Proper noun

Meaning

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Alt. of Malayan

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Malay.

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Examples

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night's creatures. Anthony Burgess

Penang is a paradise, and east coast Kelantan has beautiful Malay women who walk proudly ahead of their husbands and scorn Koranic purdah.... Anthony Burgess

...the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved's face with one's nose. Anthony Burgess

The meeting of their shadows or that meet In a book in a barrack, a letter from Malay. But your war ends. And after it you return. Wallace Stevens

How does the Malay in the kampong find his way out into this modernised civil society? By becoming servants of the 0.3 per cent who would have the money to hire them to clean their shoe, open their motorcar doors? Lee Kuan Yew

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