Malay

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A member of a people inhabiting Malaysia, the northern Malay Peninsula, and parts of the western Malay Archipelago.
2. n. The Austronesian language of the Malays. Also called Bahasa Malay.
3. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Malays or their language.
4. adj. Of or relating to Malaysia, the Malay Peninsula, or the Malay Archipelago.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A native of Malacca or of the Malay peninsula, or of the adjacent islands.
2. n. The language of the Malays. It is a dialect belonging to the Malayan branch of the Malay-Polynesian family.
3. n. A variety of the domestic hen, having a tall and slender shape like that of the exhibition game, but larger, and long legs and neck and a close, low tail. The shanks are yellow; the comb is flat or strawberry-shaped. In coloration the hen is chocolate- or cinnamon-brown, with green-black lacing, while the cock resembles a dull-colored black-breasted red game-cock. The eggs are large and brown.
4. Of or pertaining to the Malays or to their country. Also Malaic.

Wiktionary

1. adj. of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago and the coastal areas of Kalimantan in Indonesia, in most of Malaysia (states where they are politically dominant), in Singapore and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.
2. adj. usage generally frowned upon by Malays and Malaysians of or related to Malaysia, its people and/or culture.
3. adj. in, of or otherwise relating to Malay, a generic name for the languages spoken by Malays.
4. n. A person of Malay ancestry, referring to a diverse group of Austronesian peoples inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.
5. n. type of mild curry made with yoghurt and fruit, usually pineapple or lychee.
6. n. The Malay language, an Austronesian language spoken by most Malay people and in states they dominate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
2. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
3. n. a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages