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Definition: Malaya |
MalayaNoun1. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Malaya" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Synonym: MalayaSynonym: Malaysia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Malaya |
| English words defined with "Malaya": Codiaeum ♦ genus Codiaeum, godown ♦ Indian tapir ♦ Malayan tapir, Metroxylon sagu ♦ napu ♦ Tapirus indicus, Tragulus Javanicus, true sago palm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Malaya": Brugia pahangi ♦ Macaca nemestrina ♦ Sindbis Virus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Malaya" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (Malaya), Turkish (malay). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Raja Malaya Simhan (1959) Malaya (1949) Nomads of the Jungle: Malaya (1948) Malaya Marutha (1986) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | In February 1999, the University of Malaya declined to renew the contract of Professor Chandra Muzaffar. (references) |
Singapore | The law stipulates that former members of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) residing outside the country must apply to the Government to be allowed to return. (references) | |
Malaysia | Also in July, the Government detained two students at the University of Malaya and the Mara Technical Institute under the ISA for engaging in opposition political activities, including demonstrating against the ISA. (references) | |
Economic History | Singapore | In 1959, Singapore became self-governing, and, in 1963, it joined the newly independent Federation of Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak (the latter two former British Borneo territories) to form Malaysia. (references) |
Australia | In addition to contributing to UN forces in Korea--it was the first country to announce it would do so after the United States--Australia sent troops to assist in putting down the communist revolt in Malaya in 1948-60 and later to combat the Indonesian-supported invasion of Sarawak in 1963-65. Australia also sent troops to assist South Vietnamese and U.S. forces in Vietnam and joined coalition forces in the Persian Gulf conflict in 1991. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | Former Attorney General Mohtar Abdullah was appointed to the Federal Court and Ahmad Fairuz was appointed Chief Judge of the High Court of Malaya. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Malaya" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malaya" is used about 113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 113 | 30,464 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
malaya universiti | 460 |
malaya | 187 |
university of malaya | 177 |
malaya newspaper | 31 |
malaya news | 22 |
malaya news philippine | 11 |
malaya newspaper philippine | 10 |
malaya online | 9 |
malaya perubatan pusat universiti | 9 |
history of malaya | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Malaya"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | Malajsko. (various references) | |
Dutch | Maleisië (Federation of Malaya, Malaysia), FM (Federated States of Micronesia, Federation of Malaya, frequency modulation, Micronesia). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Malájföld, malaja. (various references) | |
Maori | Mareia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alayamay.(various references) | |
Spanish | Malaya. (various references) | |
Swedish | Västmalaysia. (various references) | |
Ukranian | Малайя. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Malaya" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alanya, Aliyah, Awliya, Maclay, Macleavy, Madaba, Magaya, Mahabad, Makaha, Makaiwa, Malaba, malaca, Malahat, Malaika, Malaita, malakai, malayer, Malby, Malekat, Malgara, Malika, Maliza, Mallabar, Mallika, Mallya, Maloma, Malyali, Maraya, Matlala, Mawlana, Mbalya, Medlawa, Melara, Melikyan, Meluha, Miliyel, Milupa, Minaya, Mizaaya, Mouayad, Msa-aa, Muhayaa, Mulayam, Nahayo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-l-m-y" | |
-2 letters: alma, amyl, lama, maya. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ama, lam, lay, may, yam. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, am, ay, la, ma, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-l-m-y" | |
+1 letter: yamalka. | |
+2 letters: amygdala, calamary, yamalkas. | |
+3 letters: adamantly, amygdalae, jambalaya, salaryman. | |
+4 letters: cavalryman, jambalayas, manageably, maniacally, metagalaxy. | |
+5 letters: cataclysmal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 61 79 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-.. .- -.--. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01100001 01111001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l a y a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 0061 0079 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476778679167 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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