malay

prop. n. Formerly, an Asian country on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, now part of Malaysia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prop. a. Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. -- n. The Malay language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malay apple (Bot.), a myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Malaccensis) common in India; also, its applelike fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate (Tapirus indicus) of tropical America and Southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout.
Syn. -- Indian tapir, Tapirus indicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to Malayo-Polynesia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a peninsula in Southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Burma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A country in Southeast Asia including the former nation of Malaya on the Malay Peninsula, and part of Borneo; sometimes still referred to as Malaya. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]