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Malayans

Malayans is the plural of Malayan.

Meaning of Malayan

Noun

Malayan (plural Malayans)

  1. A person of whatever ethnicity from the former Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia
    • The third class is intended to provide cheap travel for the poorest Malayans; wooden seats are the rule, the compensation lying in the fare of four cents a mile (about 1d).1950 October, R. A. Marshall, “Kuala Lumpur, an important Malayan Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 706
  2. Either of two lycaenid butterflies of the genus Megisba of Asia and Australasia.

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Questions about Malayans

What is Malayans the plural of?
Malayans is the plural of Malayan.

Words near Malayans in the dictionary

  1. Malayanization
  2. Malayanize
  3. Malayanized
  4. Malayanizes
  5. Malayanizing
  6. Malayans
  7. Malaybalay
  8. Malayic
  9. Malayisation
  10. Malayisations
  11. Malayise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Malayans (page history and authors); Malayan (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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