- Malay, Malayan - 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"
- Malay, Malayan - a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
--1 is a kind of Asian, Asiatic
--1 is a member ofMalaysia, Malaya; Malay Peninsula; Malay Archipelago, East Indies, East India - Malay - a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
--2 is a kind of Western Malayo-Polynesian
--2 has particulars:Malaysian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Kebangsaan; Indonesian, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa