| English noun: Malay | 
| 1. | Malay (person) a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago | 
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 | Synonyms | Malayan | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | Asian, Asiatic | 
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 | Member meronym | East India, East Indies, Malay Archipelago, Malay Peninsula, Malaya, Malaysia | 
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| 2. | Malay (communication) a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | Western Malayo-Polynesian | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | Bahasa, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Kebangsaan, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Melayu, Indonesian, Malaysian | 
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