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Malagasy

Syllables: Mal·a·gasy/ˌmæləˈɡæsi/US/ˌmɑləˈɡɑsi/

Malagasy noun: a person from Madagascar or of Malagasy descent.

Noun

Malagasy (plural Malagasy or Malagasies)

  1. A person from Madagascar or of Malagasy descent.

Proper noun

Malagasy

  1. The languages of Madagascar or of the Malagasy people, when considered to be one language.
    • “On the other hand, I had the French and English Wiktionaries which each had more Malagasy words than the entire Malagasy Wiktionary. [That was] the trigger to start working on the Malagasy Wiktionary. In 2009, [I] didn’t know much programming at that time, so I did everything by hand, at least in...2020 August 4, Cyrus Multhauf, quoting Jagwar, “How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary”, in NEEM Blog, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021
  2. The chief lect of this language or language group.

Adjective

Malagasy (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Madagascar.
  2. Of or pertaining to the Malagasy people.
  3. Of, pertaining to or in the Malagasy language.

Malagasy meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Arabic

Malagasy in Hindi

pertaining to Madagascar
मालागासी mālāgāsī

Malagasy in Bengali

pertaining to Madagascar
মালাগাসি malagaśi

Malagasy in Gujarati

pertaining to Madagascar
માલાગાસી mālāgāsī

Malagasy in Arabic

the language of the Malagasy, when considered one language
الْمَلَغَاسِيَّة or الْمَلْغَاسِيَّة al-malaḡāsiyya, الْمَلَغَاشِيَّة or الْمَلْغَاشِيَّة al-malaḡāšiyya
More languagesFewer languages
Malagasy in Indonesian
bahasa Madagaskar, Madagaskar

Forms of Malagasy

pluralMalagasy
pluralMalagasies

Origin of Malagasy

Borrowed from Malagasy malagasy, connected to Mālāī-Jezīra, “island of Mālāī”. Compare English Madagascar, which by folk etymology comes from Marco Polo's misreading of Mogadishu whereas it should be Arabic جَزِيرَة المَالَائِيّ (jazīrat al-mālāʔiyy, “the Island of Mālāī”).

Words formed from Malagasy

Phrases with Malagasy

Words that rhyme with Malagasy

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Questions about Malagasy

What does Malagasy mean?
Malagasy means a person from Madagascar or of Malagasy descent.
What is Malagasy in Hindi?
Malagasy in Hindi is मालागासी (mālāgāsī). See Malagasy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Malagasy?
Malagasy can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Malagasy?
Malagasy is pronounced /ˌmæləˈɡæsi/.
What is the plural of Malagasy?
The plural of Malagasy is Malagasy.

Words near Malagasy in the dictionary

  1. malagarouse
  2. Malagas
  3. Malagash
  4. Malagashes
  5. Malagasies
  6. Malagasy
  7. Malagasy carnivoran
  8. Malagasy carnivorans
  9. Malagasy civet
  10. Malagasy civets
  11. Malagasy mongoose

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Malagasy (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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