Usually means: Native or related to Malaysia.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word Malayan:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. malayan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Malayan: Merriam-Webster
  3. Malayan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Malayan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Malayan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Malayan: Wordnik
  7. Malayan: Wiktionary
  8. Malayan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Malayan: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. malayan: Dictionary.com
  11. Malayan (film), Malayan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Malayan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Malayan: Rhymezone
  14. Malayan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. malayan: FreeDictionary.org
  16. malayan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Malayan: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Malayan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See malay as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Malayan)

▸ noun:  A person of whatever ethnicity from the former [[Malaya] or Peninsular Malaysia
▸ noun:  Either of two lycaenid butterflies of the genus Megisba of Asia and Australasia.
▸ adjective:  of, or relating to the former Malaya; Malay
▸ noun:  A surname from Armenian.

Similar:
Malaysian, Malayanist, Malaccan, Malawian, Malayanization, Malian, Msian, bumiputra, Malabarian, Maldivian, more...

Opposite:
non-Malayan, non-Malay, non-Malaysian

Types:
Javanese, Sumatran, Balinese, Dayak, Batak, Bugis, Makassarese, Minangkab, more...

Phrases:
Malayan Union, malayan peninsula, Malayan Emergency, Malayan tapir, malayan languages, more...

Adjectives:
pan, indo, anglo, austro, anti, sino, average, sub, pure, siamese, thai

Colors:
    hibiscus red,     jungle green,     bamboo green,     orchid purple,     coral pink, more...

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Similar:
Malaysian, Malayanist, Malaccan, Malawian, Malayanization, Malian, Msian, bumiputra, Malabarian, Maldivian, more...

Opposite:
non-Malayan, non-Malay, non-Malaysian

Types:
Javanese, Sumatran, Balinese, Dayak, Batak, Bugis, Makassarese, Minangkab, more...

Phrases:
Malayan Union, malayan peninsula, Malayan Emergency, Malayan tapir, malayan languages, malayan tapirs, indo malayan, malayan bear, malayan sun bear, malayan camphor, malayan zebra, malayan zebras, more...

Adjectives:
pan, indo, anglo, austro, anti, sino, average, sub, pure, siamese, thai

Colors:
    hibiscus red,     jungle green,     bamboo green,     orchid purple,     coral pink, more...



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