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say it: muh-LAY-uhn
malayan is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia". It is pronounced /məˈleɪən/ — muh-LAY-uhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia
“Malaysian police crack down hard on drug smugglers”
“Malayan crocodiles”
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”
a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for malayan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.