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Malayo-

Malayo- is the combining form of Malay.

Meaning of Malay

Adjective

Malay (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei and coastal regions of Borneo including Kalimantan in Indonesia, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago, in most of the Malay Peninsula including the southernmost provinces of Thailand, states of West Malaysia (where they are politically dominant in the federation), and in Singapore.
    • There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 286
  2. In, of or otherwise relating to the languages spoken by Malays.

See all 7 meanings of Malay

Origin of Malayo-

From Malay + -o-.

Questions about Malayo-

What is Malayo- the combining form of?
Malayo- is the combining form of Malay.

Words near Malayo- in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Malayo- (page history and authors); 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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