malayan

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia

   “Malaysian police crack down hard on drug smugglers”

   “Malayan crocodiles”

   SynonymsMalaysian
2. 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

   “Malay peoples”

   “Malayan syllable structure”

   SynonymsMalay

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsMalay

   BroaderAsian

   Part ofMalaysiaMalay PeninsulaMalay Archipelago

Other forms of malayan

plural

malayans·

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 malayan

What does malayan mean?

malayan means "of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malayan?

malayan has 3 syllables: ma-la-yan. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /məˈleɪən/.

What is another word for malayan?

Close synonyms include Malaysian, Malay, Malay. 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 malayan a common word?

malayan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with malayan?

1 word rhymes with malayan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.