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Malaysians

/məˈleɪ.zi.ənz/

Malaysians is the plural of Malaysian.

Meaning of Malaysian

Noun

Malaysian (plural Malaysians)

  1. A native of Malaysia.
  2. (obsolete) A native of the Malay Archipelago.
    • The insular position of the greater parts of the Malaysians has made them expert and intrepid mariners; and they have carried to a high degree of perfection the construction of their various kinds of vessels. The Achinese and the Siaks of Sumatra, the Macassars and Bugis of Celebes, the Tagales of...1842, System of Descriptive Geography, Founded on the Works of Malte-Burn and Balbi, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 973

See all 6 meanings of Malaysian

Questions about Malaysians

What is Malaysians the plural of?
Malaysians is the plural of Malaysian.
How do you pronounce Malaysians?
Malaysians is pronounced /məˈleɪ.zi.ənz/.

Words near Malaysians in the dictionary

  1. Malaysianized
  2. Malaysianizes
  3. Malaysianizing
  4. Malaysianness
  5. malaysianol
  6. Malaysians
  7. Malaysiaphobia
  8. Malaysio-
  9. Malayu Ambon
  10. Malaŵi
  11. Malaŵian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Malaysians (page history and authors); Malaysian (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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