family in Malay
keluarga
/ˈfaməlɪj//ˈfæm(ɪ)li/
family in Malay: keluarga, famili, rumpun. In English, family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Malay words for family
- immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children
- keluarga, famili
- group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
- keluarga, famili
- rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species
- keluarga, famili
- linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
- rumpun
English meaning of family
- noun A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- noun A group of related animals, usually a mother and offspring, a mating pair or larger lineages in some species.
- noun An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- noun A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
family in a sentence
- Our family lives in town.
- The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
- We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
Synonyms of family
family in other languages
- family in Hindi
- family in Tamil
- family in Marathi
- family in Urdu
- family in Bengali
- family in Telugu
- family in Malayalam
- family in Kannada
- family in Punjabi
- family in Gujarati
- family in Odia
- family in Sanskrit
- family in Sinhala
- family in Assamese
- family in Nepali
- family in Pashto
- family in Tagalog
- family in Arabic
- family in Indonesian
- family in Persian
- family in Thai
- family in Vietnamese
- family in Myanmar
Questions about family in Malay
- What is the meaning of family in Malay?
- Family in Malay is keluarga, famili, rumpun.
- Apakah maksud family dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Family: keluarga, famili, rumpun.
- What does family mean in English?
- Family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: family (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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