malaysia

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsFederation of Malaysia

   BroaderAsian country

   Part ofIndochinaAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations

   PartsPutrajayaEast MalaysiaWest MalaysiaMalaysian state

Other forms of malaysia

plural

malaysias·

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 malaysia

What does malaysia mean?

malaysia means "a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957".

How many syllables are in malaysia?

malaysia has 3 syllables: ma-lay-sia. The stress falls on "lay". In IPA it is /məˈleɪʒə/.

What is another word for malaysia?

Close synonyms include Federation of 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 malaysia a common word?

malaysia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 malaysia?

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