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- a member of a people inhabiting Malaysia and Indonesia马来人（居住在马来西亚和印度尼西亚的一个民族）。
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- a person of Malay descent马来血统的人。
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- mass noun the Austronesian language of the Malays, closely related to Indonesian and spoken by about 20 million people. It is the official language of Malaysia, where it is the first language of about half the population.马来语（马来人使用的澳斯特罗尼西亚语, 是印度尼西亚语的近亲, 约有2,000万人操该语言; 它是马来西亚的官方语言, 是马来西亚约一半人的第一语言）。
- of or relating to this people or language（与）马来人（有关）的; （与）马来语（有关）的。
词源
from Malay Malayu （now Melayu）.