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Malayness

Malayness noun: the quality of being Malay.

Noun

Malayness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being Malay.

Malayness meaning in Malay and Indonesian

Malayness in Malay

quality of being Malay
kemelayuan

Malayness in Indonesian

quality of being Malay
kemelayuan

Origin of Malayness

From Malay + -ness.

Questions about Malayness

What does Malayness mean?
Malayness means the quality of being Malay.
What is Malayness in Malay?
Malayness in Malay is kemelayuan. See Malayness meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is Malayness?
Malayness is a noun.

Words near Malayness in the dictionary

  1. Malayizations
  2. Malayize
  3. Malayized
  4. Malayizes
  5. Malayizing
  6. Malayness
  7. Malayo-
  8. Malayo-Polynesian
  9. Malayo-Polynesianist
  10. Malayo-Polynesianists
  11. malayophobe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Malayness (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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