Malaysia

English

Etymology

From Malays +‎ -ia, amended from the previous form, Malaya, possibly from Javanese mlayu (“to run”), refering to the Austronesian habit of migrating long distances by canoe, and which is apparently a variation of لاري‎ (“lari”) (to run), from Proto-Malayic *lari, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *lari, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *lari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laʀiw, from Proto-Austronesian *laʀiw. 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)

  (file)

Proper noun

Malaysia

2. A country in Southeast Asia.

Derived terms

• Bahasa Malaysia
• Malaysian

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

• Afrikaans: Maleisië
• Albanian: Malazi f
• 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)

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

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

  Min Nan: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (Má-lâi-se-a)

  Wu: 馬來西亞／马来西亚 (ma le xi ia)

• 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 (malaizia)
• German: Malaysia (de) n, Malaysien n
• Greek: Μαλαισία (el) f (Malaisía)
• Gujarati: મલેશિયા (maleśiyā)
• Haitian Creole: Malezi
• Hausa: Malaisiya
• Hawaiian: Malaia
• 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 (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 f
• Lithuanian: Malaizija (lt) f
• Luhya: Malesia
• Luo: Malesia
• Lü: ᦙᦱᦟᦻᧉᦌᦲᧈᦊᦱᧈ (maalaay²sii¹ẏaa¹)
• 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

• Oriya: ମାଲେସିଆ (malesia)
• Pashto: مالیزیا‎ (māleziyā), مالېزيا‎ (māleziyā)
• Persian: مالزی‎ (mâlezi)
• Polish: Malezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Malásia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮਲੇਸ਼ੀਆ m (maleśīā)

  Shahmukhi: مَلیشیا‎ m (maleśiya)

• 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 (Malayziya)
• Telugu: మలేషియా (te) (malēṣiyā)
• 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: ملائیشیا‎ m (malā'īśiyā)
• 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, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, 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, 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (MY)

    (file)

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /malajsia/
• Rhymes: -əlesia, -lesia, -esia, -sia, -ia, -a

Proper noun

Malaysia (Jawi spelling مليسيا‎)

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)

   orang Malaysia ― Malaysian (person)

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

Proper noun

Malaysia n (genitive Malaysias)

1. Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)