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Malayan, a. and n.|məˈleɪən|
[f. Malay + -an.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Malays or the Malay archipelago.
1668Wilkins Real Char. i. ii. 10 That which seems to be the newest Language in the World, is the Malayan. 1668T. Hyde Let. to Boyle 23 Feb. in B.'s Wks. (1744) V. 592/2 The printing of St. Luke and the Acts in the Malayan letter, would make about thirty sheets. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 22 The Malayan or Polynesian race. 1847Tennyson Princess 21 The cursed Malayan crease, and battle-clubs From the isles of palm. 1864― Aylmer's F. 463 My lady's cousin..Ran a Malayan amuck against the times.
b. in the names of various animals, products, etc. of the Malay archipelago, as Malayan (sun) bear, Helarctos (Ursus) malayanus; Malayan camphor, porcupine, tapir = Malay camphor, etc.
1824T. Horsfield Zool. Researches Java, Tapirus Malayanus... In the month of September, 1820, the first specimen of the Malayan Tapir was received in England from Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. 1826― in Zool. Jrnl. II. 222 In the year 1819 a specimen of the Malayan Bear, obtained at Bencoolen, was brought to England. 1855W. S. Dallas Zool. II. 486 The Malayan Sun Bear.
2. Of or belonging to the variety of domestic fowl known as the Malay.
1885Tegetmeier in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 645/1 Malayan Fowls.—The Malayan type has been long recognized as of Eastern origin.
B. n.
1. = Malay n. 1.
1598W. Phillips tr. Linschoten xviii. 31/2 And all the Malaiens [Du. die Malayen], as well men as women, are very amorous... And hee that dwelleth in India, and can not speake the Malayans [Du. dese Malayen men] speach, wil hardly with vs learne the French tongue. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 561 The inhabitants..go under the name of Malayans. 1902Blackw. Mag. Nov. 620/2 The one Malayan who has ever displayed commanding ability.
2. = Malay n. 2.
1688T. Hyde Let. to Boyle 25 Oct. in B.'s Wks. (1744) V. 592/1 We have in Dutch and Malayan a grammar and two vocabularies. 1883I. L. Bird Golden Chersonese Introd. 15 There is a very strong resemblance between their dialects and pure Malayan.
3. During the existence of the Federation of Malaya (from 1948 until 1963), an inhabitant of Malaya (regardless of race or creed).
1954V. Bartlett Rep. from Malaya ii. 23 A Malayan is anybody—be he Malay, Chinese, Tamil, Eurasian or European—whose home is in Malaya, whereas a Malay is a member of a large race of whom about 3,000,000 live in Malaya, and more than 70,000,000 in Java, Sumatra and the other islands of Indonesia. 1958G. Mikes East is East 114 A Malayan is an inhabitant of Malaya, irrespective of race or creed. 1961L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 304/2 Since the independence of Malaya..Malayan has a political significance as a citizen of Malaya. |