Malaysia

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Malay Melayuder.

English Malay

English Malays

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)der.

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)?

Ancient Greek -ιᾰ (-ia)

Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)der.

Latin -iader.

English -ia

English Malaysia

From Malays +‎ -ia, amended from the previous form, Malaya. The ⟨-s⟩ was added to honour the inclusion of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo (Sabah) with Malaya in the formation of The Federation of Malaysia.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /məˈleɪʒə/, /məˈleɪziə/
• (Malaysia) IPA^(key): /məlejsiə/, /məlejʃə/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Malaysia

2. A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Kuala Lumpur.
3. (obsolete) The Malay Archipelago.
   • 1842, System of Descriptive Geography, Founded on the Works of Malte-Burn and Balbi‎^[1], Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 974:

     For the purpose of topographical description, Malaysia may be divided into six groups of islands, namely — 1. Sumatra, and the smaller islands adjacent ; 2. The long chain of islands which extends east and west from the Strait of Sunda to New Guinea, including Java, Madura, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Comobo, Flares, Jindana or Sandelwood, Adenar, Solor, Lomblem, Pantar, Ombay, Timor, Semao, Rotte, Savu, Cambi, Wetter, Serwatty, Babba, Timorlaut, &c. ; 3. The Banda and Molucca Islands ; 4. Celebes and the smaller adjacent islands; 5. Borneo and adjacent islands; 6. The Philippine Islands.

Derived terms

• Bahasa Malaysia
• Malaysian

Descendants

• → Japanese: マレーシア (Marēshia)
• → Malay: Malaysia
  • → Japanese: マライシア (Maraishia) (obsolete)

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

• Afrikaans: Maleisië
• Albanian: Malajzi f (indefinite), Malajzia f (definite)
• Amharic: ማሌዢያ (maležiya)
• Arabic: مَالَيْزِيَا (ar) f (malayziyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: ماليزيا f (mālīzya)

• Armenian: Մալայզիա (Malayzia)
• Assamese: মালয়েছিয়া (maloyesia)
• Asturian: Malasia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Malayziya (az)
• Bashkir: Малайзия (Malayziya)
• Belarusian: Мала́йзія f (Malájzija)
• Bengali: মালয়েশিয়া (bn) (malẏeśiẏa)
• Breton: Malaysia
• Bulgarian: Мала́йзия (bg) f (Malájzija)
• Burmese: မလေးရှား (ma.le:hra:)
• Catalan: Malàisia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (maa⁵ loi⁴ sai¹ aa³)

  Dungan: Малащи (Malaxi)

  Eastern Min: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (Mā-lài-să̤-ā)

  Hakka: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (Mâ-lòi-sî-â, Mâ-lòi-sî-á)

  Hokkien: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (Má-lâi-se-a)

  Mandarin: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (zh) (Mǎláixīyà)

  Wu: 馬來西亞／马来西亚

• Czech: Malajsie (cs) f
• Danish: Malaysia n
• Dhivehi: މެލޭޝިޔާ (dv) (melēšiyā)
• Dutch: Maleisië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Malajzio (eo)
• Estonian: Malaisia (et)
• Finnish: Malesia (fi)
• French: Malaisie (fr) f
• Galician: Malaisia (gl) f
• Georgian: მალაიზია (ka) (malaizia)
• German: Malaysia (de) n, Malaysien n
• Greek: Μαλαισία (el) f (Malaisía)
• Gujarati: મલેશિયા (maleśiyā)
• Haitian Creole: Malezi
• Hausa: Malaisiya
• Hawaiian: Malaia, Malaisia
• Hebrew: מָלֶזְיָה f (malezya)
• Hindi: मलेशिया (hi) m (maleśiyā)
• Hungarian: Malajzia (hu)
• Icelandic: Malasía (is) f
• Ido: Malaizia (io)
• Indonesian: Malaysia (id)
• Interlingua: Malaysia
• Italian: Malesia f
• Japanese: マレーシア (ja) (Marēshia)
• Kalenjin: Malesia
• Kamba: Malesia
• Kannada: ಮಲೇಶಿಯ (kn) (malēśiya)
• Kazakh: Малайзия (kk) (Malaiziä)
• Khmer: ម៉ាឡេស៊ី (maaleesii)
• Kikuyu: Malesia
• Korean: 말레이시아 (ko) (Malleisia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Malezya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Малайзия (Malayziya)
• Lao: ມາເລເຊັຽ (mā lē sīa), ມາເລເຊຍ (lo) (mā lē sīa)
• Latin: Malaesia f
• Latvian: Malaizija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Malaizija (lt) f
• Lü: ᦙᦱᦟᦻᧉᦌᦲᧈᦊᦱᧈ (maalaay²sii¹ẏaa¹)
• Luhya: Malesia
• Luo: Malesia
• Macedonian: Малезија f (Malezija)
• Malay: Malaysia (ms)

  Jawi: مليسيا (ms)

• Malayalam: മലേഷ്യ (malēṣya)
• Maltese: Il-Malażja f
• Manx: Yn Valaysia f
• Maori: Marēhia
• Marathi: मलेशिया (maleśiyā)
• Meru: Malesia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Малайз (Malajz)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠯᠠᠶᠢᠽ (malayiz)

• Navajo: Maléízha
• Nepali: मलेशिया (maleśiyā)
• Norman: Malaysie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Malaysia (no) n

  Nynorsk: Malaysia (nn) n

• Odia: ମାଲେସିଆ (mālesiā)
• Pashto: مالیزیا f (māleziyā), مالېزيا f (māleziyā)
• Persian:

  Dari Persian: مَالِیزِیَا (mālīziyā), مَالَیْزِیَا (mālayziyā)

  Iranian Persian: مالِزی (mâlezi)

• Polish: Malezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Malásia (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਮਲੇਸ਼ੀਆ m (maleśīā)

  Shahmukhi: مَلیشیا m (maleśeyā)

• Romanian: Malaezia (ro) f, Malaysia (ro) f
• Russian: Мала́йзия (ru) f (Malájzija)
• Sanskrit: मलयेशिया (malayeśiyā), मलेशिया (maleśiyā), मलेशियादेश (maleśiyādeśa)
• Scots: Malaysie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ма̀ле̄зија f

  Roman: Màlēzija (sh) f

• Sindhi: ملائيشيا
• Sinhalese: මලයාසියාව (malayāsiyāwa)
• Slovak: Malajzia f
• Slovene: Malézija (sl) f
• Spanish: Malasia (es) f
• Swahili: Malaysia (sw), Malesia (sw)
• Swedish: Malaysia (sv) n
• Tagalog: Malasya
• Tajik: Малайзия (Malayziya)
• Tamil: மலேசியா (ta) (malēciyā)
• Tatar: Малайзия (Malayziyä)
• Telugu: మలేషియా (te) (malēṣiyā)
• Tetum: Malázia
• Thai: มาเลเซีย (th) (maa-lee-siia)
• Tibetan: མ་ལ་ཤི་ཡ (ma la shi ya)
• Tongan: Maleisia
• Turkish: Malezya (tr)
• Turkmen: Malaýziýa
• Ukrainian: Мала́йзія (uk) f (Malájzija)
• Urdu: مَلائِیشِیا m (malāīśiyā), مَلائِشِیا m (malāiśiyā)
• Uyghur: مالايسىيا (malaysiya)
• Uzbek: Malayziya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ma-lai-xi-a, Mã Lai (馬來)
• Yiddish: מאַלײַזיע n (malayzye)
• Yoruba: Màléṣíà
• Zhuang: Majlaizsihya
• Zulu: eMalaysia

See also

• Malaysia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Danish

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maˈlaɪ̯zi̯a]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ma‧lay‧sia

Proper noun

Malaysia n (proper noun, genitive Malaysias or (optionally with an article) Malaysia)

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: (Austria) Malaysien

Further reading

• Malaysia on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Malaysia” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From English Malaysia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malajsiʲa]
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): [malajʃa]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧lay‧sia

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

   orang Malaysia ― Malaysian (person)

See also

• (countries of Asia) negara-negara di Asia; Afganistan, Arab Saudi, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Filipina, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jepang, Kamboja, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea Selatan, Korea Utara, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Maladewa, Malaysia, Mesir, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestina, Qatar, Rusia, Singapura, Siprus, Sri Lanka, Suriah, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tiongkok, Turki, Turkmenistan, Uni Emirat Arab, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yaman, Yordania

Further reading

• “Malaysia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From English Malaysia, via Malays +‎ -ia, the root being from Melayu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Malaysian) IPA^(key): /məlesia, -ʃa/; /malesia/
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [məlesjə, -ʃə]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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• (Baku) IPA^(key): /malesia/
• Rhymes: -sia, -ia, -a

Proper noun

Malaysia (Jawi spelling مليسيا)

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

   orang Malaysia ― Malaysian (person)

Affixations

• kemalaysiaan (“Malaysianness”)
• malaysiakan (“Malaysianize”)
• pemalaysiaan (“Malaysianization”)

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: マライシア (Maraishia) (obsolete)

Further reading

• “Malaysia” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English Malaysia.

Proper noun

Yn Valaysia f

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• Yn Valayish (“Malay”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Malaysia	Valaysia	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

See also

• malaysier
• malaysisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

See also

• malaysiar
• malaysisk

Swahili

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: Malesia

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Malaysia n (genitive Malaysias)

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• malaysier
• malaysisk
• malaysiska

References

• Malaysia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH