(law) Abbreviation of Malaya.

Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago and the coastal areas of Kalimantan in Indonesia, in most of Malaysia (states where they are politically dominant), in Singapore and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.

(countable) A person of Malay ancestry, referring to a diverse group of Austronesian peoples inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.

plural of Malay

(cooking) An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.

Ambonese, a Malay-based creole language of Indonesia.

The older linguistic form of Malay and Indonesian originally spoken and written in Sumatra from about 1400 AD to 1800 AD. It developed from Old Malay, with heavy influence from Arabic and Persian after mass Islamisation.

A member of a Muslim community or ethnic group in South Africa, the descendants of enslaved and free Muslims from different parts of the world who lived at the Cape during Dutch and British rule.

(linguistics) The oldest attested form of Malay language. / (linguistics) The ancestor of Malay language (all form and dialects), spoken in Sumatra from about 1,000 BCE.

plural of Malay apple