MALAYAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malayan mean? 

• MALAYAN (noun)
  The noun MALAYAN has 1 sense:

1. a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

  Familiarity information: MALAYAN used as a noun is very rare.

• MALAYAN (adjective)
  The adjective MALAYAN has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia

2. 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

  Familiarity information: MALAYAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAYAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Malay; Malayan

Hypernyms ("Malayan" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Holonyms ("Malayan" is a member of...):

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)

Malay Peninsula (a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar)

Derivation:

Malayan (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)

• MALAYAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Malayan; Malaysian

Context example:

Malayan crocodiles

Pertainym:

Malaya (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)

Derivation:

Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Malay; Malayan

Context example:

Malayan syllable structure

Pertainym:

Malay (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Derivation:

Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)

 Context examples 

A proteolytic enzyme and defibrinogenating agent derived from the venom of the Malayan pit viper, with profibrinolytic and anticoagulant activities.

(Ancrod, NCI Thesaurus)