English
Etymology
From Malaysia + -an.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /məˈleɪ.zi.ən/, /məˈleɪ.ʒən/
- (Malaysia) IPA(key): /məlejsiən/, /məlejʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Adjective
Malaysian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the country of Malaysia.
- Pertaining to the Malay language.
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Pertaining to the Malay language
Noun
Malaysian (plural Malaysians)
- A native of Malaysia.
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a native of Malaysia
- Afrikaans: Maleisiër (af)
- Arabic: مَالَيْزِيّ m (malayziyy), مَالَيْزِيَّة f (malayziyya)
- Belarusian: малайзі́ец m (malajzíjec), малайзі́йка f (malajzíjka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 馬來西亞人 / 马来西亚人 (zh) (Mǎláixīyà rén), 馬來人 / 马来人 (zh) (Mǎlái rén)
- Czech: Malajsijec (cs) m, Malajsijka (cs) f
- Dutch: Maleisiër (nl) m, Maleisische (nl) f
- Esperanto: malajziano (man or woman), malajzianino (woman)
- Finnish: malesialainen (fi)
- French: Malaisien (fr) m, Malaisienne (fr) f
- Galician: malaisiano m, malaio (gl) m
- German: Malaysier (de) m, Malaysierin (de) f
- Indonesian: orang Malaysia
- Japanese: マレーシア人 (Marēshia-jin)
- Malay: orang Malaysia
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: malaysier m
- Nynorsk: malaysiar (nn) m
- Persian: مالزیایی (mâleziyâyi)
- Polish: Malezyjczyk (pl) m, Malezyjka (pl) f
- Portuguese: malaio (pt) m
- Romanian: malaiez (ro) m, malaieză (ro) f
- Russian: малайзи́ец (ru) m (malajzíjec), малайзи́йка (ru) f (malajzíjka), мала́ец (ru) m (malájec), мала́йка (ru) f (malájka)
- Spanish: malasio (es) m
- Turkish: Malezyalı (tr)
- Ukrainian: малайзі́єць m (malajzíjecʹ), малайзі́йка f (malajzíjka)
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Proper noun
Malaysian
- The Malay language, specifically the one spoken in Malaysia.
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