Meaning of malay

(adj) of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago; "Malay peoples"; "Malayan syllable structure"

(noun) a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages