Malaysia

English

Etymology

Somehow from Malaya +‎ -ia. The -s- was likely added under the influence of Indonesia.

Pronunciation

(US, UK) IPA^(key): /məˈleɪʒə/
Audio (US) (file)

Proper noun

Malaysia

A country in Southeast Asia.

Derived terms

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)
Pashto: مالیزیا‎ (māleziyā), مالېزيا‎ (māleziyā)
Persian: مالزی‎ (mâlezi)
Polish: Malezja (pl) f
Portuguese: Malásia (pt) f
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
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)
Yiddish: מאַלײַזיע‎ (malayzye)
Yoruba: Malasia
Zhuang: Majlaizsihya
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Danish

Proper noun

Malaysia

Malaysia

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [maˈlaɪ̯zi̯a]
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: Ma‧lay‧sia

Proper noun

Malaysia n

Malaysia

Indonesian

Proper noun

Malaysia

Malaysia

Adjective

Malaysia

Malaysian

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

Malaysia

Adjective

Malaysia

Malaysian

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English Malaysia.

Proper noun

Yn Valaysia f

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Malaysia

Malaysia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Malaysia

Malaysia

Swedish

Proper noun

Malaysia n (genitive Malaysias)

Malaysia

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Malaysia

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Danish

Proper noun

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Further reading

Indonesian

Proper noun

Adjective

Malay

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adjective

Manx

Etymology

Proper noun

Related terms

Mutation

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

See also

Swedish

Proper noun