Malayan
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- anti-Malayan adjective
- non-Malayan adjective
- pre-Malayan adjective
- pro-Malayan adjective
Etymology
Origin of Malayan
Example Sentences
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It prefers companies benefiting from a stronger ringgit as well as exposure to data centers and energy–naming Malayan Banking, Tenaga Nasional and Bumi Armada as among its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
In 1953, he re-joined the SAS, this time battling Communist soldiers in jungles during the Malayan Emergency.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025
The samples from the stall that contained the coronavirus also contained DNA from a variety of animals, including dogs, rabbits, hoary bamboo rats, Malayan porcupines and masked palm civets.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2024
Apparently its Malayan sun bear looked surprisingly humanlike when it stood up on two legs to wave at visitors.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023
He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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