malaya

Other forms of malaya

plural

malayas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about malaya

What does malaya mean?

malaya means "the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north".

How many syllables are in malaya?

malaya has 2 syllables: ma-laya. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for malaya?

Close synonyms include West Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malaya a common word?

malaya is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.