malay
French, noun
malay is spelled M-A-L-A-Y (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malay is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of malais” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Malay is a different word: “alternative form of Malais”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le malais”.
What does malay mean in English?
adjective
- 1
alternative form of malais (“Malay”)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of malais
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of Malais
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Malais.
noun: 1. Le malais.
noun: 1. Variante de Malais.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of malay
- Malays plural
- Malaye feminine
- malaye feminine
- malays masculine plural
- malayes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to malay
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malay in French?
malay appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).