Malaysia

English

Etymology

Malaya +‎ -ia. 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/

• Audio (US)

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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 f (malayziyā)
• Armenian: Մալայզիա (Malayzia)
• Asturian: Malasia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Malayziya (az)
• Bashkir: Малайзия (Malayziya)
• Belarusian: Мала́йзія f (Malájzija)
• Bengali: মালয়েশিয়া (bn) (malyeśiya)
• 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)

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

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

  Min Nan: 馬來西亞, 马来西亚 (Má-lâi-se-a)

• Czech: Malajsie (cs) f
• Danish: Malaysia
• Dhivehi: މެލޭޝިޔާ‎ (dv) (melēšiyā)
• Dutch: Maleisië (nl)
• 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)
• Haitian Creole: Malezi
• Hausa: Malaisiya
• Hebrew: מָלֶזְיָה‎ f (malezia)
• Hindi: मलेशिया (hi) (maleśiyā)
• Hungarian: Malajzia (hu)
• Icelandic: Malasía (is) f
• Ido: Malaizia (io)
• Indonesian: Malaysia (id)
• Interlingua: Malaysia
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: Malesia f
• Japanese: マレーシア (ja) (Marēshia)
• Kalenjin: Malesia
• Kamba: Malesia
• Kannada: ಮಲೇಶಿಯ (kn) (malēśiya)
• Kazakh: Малайзия (Malayzïya)
• Khmer: ម៉ាឡេស៊ី (maaleesii)
• Kikuyu: Malesia
• Korean: 말레이시아 (Malleisia)
• 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: Малайз (Malajz)
• Navajo: Maléízha
• Nepali: मलेशिया (maleśiyā)
• Norman: Malaysie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Malaysia (no)

  Nynorsk: Malaysia (nn)

• Oriya: ମାଲେସିଆ (malesia)
• Pashto: مالیزیا‎ (māleziyā), مالېزيا‎ (māleziyā)
• Persian: مالزی‎ (mâlezi)
• Polish: Malezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Malásia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮਲੇਸ਼ੀਆ m (maleshīā)
• Romanian: Malaezia (ro) f, Malaysia (ro) f
• Russian: Мала́йзия (ru) f (Malájzija)
• Sanskrit: मलयेशिया (malayeśiyā)
• Scots: Malaysie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ма̀ле̄зија f

  Roman: Màlēzija (sh) f

• Sindhi: ملائيشيا‎
• Sinhalese: මලයාසියාව (malayāsiyāva)
• Slovak: Malajzia f
• Slovene: Malézija (sl) f
• Spanish: Malasia (es) f
• Swahili: Malesia (sw)
• Swedish: Malaysia (sv)
• Tagalog: Malasya
• Tajik: Малайзия (Malayziya)
• Tamil: மலேசியா (ta) (malēciyā)
• 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: ملائشیا‎ (malā'iśiyā)
• Uyghur: مالايسىيا‎ (malaysiya)
• Uzbek: Malayziya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ma-lai-xi-a, Mã Lai (馬來)
• Western Panjabi: ملائشیا‎
• Yiddish: מאַלײַזיע‎ (malayzye)
• Yoruba: Malasia
• Zhuang: Majlaizsihya
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Countries of the world
• Malaysia in Wikipedia

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Danish

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maˈlaɪ̯zi̯a]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ma‧lay‧sia

Proper noun

Malaysia n

1. Malaysia

Further reading

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

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia

Adjective

Malaysia

1. Malaysian

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Malay

Etymology

Via English Malay (from Melayu) + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /malai̯siə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /malai̯sia/
• Rhymes: -iə, -jə, -ə

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia

Adjective

Malaysia

1. Malaysian

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Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English Malaysia.

Proper noun

Yn Valaysia f

1. Malaysia

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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia

See also

• malaysier
• malaysisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Malaysia

1. Malaysia

See also

• malaysiar
• malaysisk

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Swedish

Proper noun

Malaysia n (genitive Malaysias)

1. Malaysia