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Cape Malays

Cape Malays is the plural of Cape Malay.

Meaning of Cape Malay

Noun

Cape Malay (plural Cape Malays)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    Cape Muslim

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Questions about Cape Malays

What is Cape Malays the plural of?
Cape Malays is the plural of Cape Malay.

Words near Cape Malays in the dictionary

  1. Cape lilac
  2. Cape lilacs
  3. Cape lion
  4. Cape lions
  5. Cape Malay
  6. Cape Malays
  7. Cape May
  8. Cape May County
  9. Cape May Court House
  10. Cape mountain zebra
  11. Cape Muslim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cape Malays (page history and authors); Cape Malay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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