Malay

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Malay may refer to:

Languages

Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
- History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
- Indonesian language, the official form of the Malay language in Indonesia
- Malaysian Malay, the official form of the Malay language in Malaysia
Malayic languages, a group of closely related languages in the Malay Archipelago
Malay trade and creole languages, a set of pidgin languages throughout the Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the entire Malay archipelago
Brunei Malay, an official national language of Brunei distinct from standard Malay
Kedah Malay, a variety of the Malay languages spoken in Malaysia and Thailand
Sri Lanka Malay language, spoken by the Malay race minority in Sri Lanka
Kelantan-Pattani Malay, variety of Malay spoken in State of Kelantan, Malaysia & South Thailand

Malay race, a racial category used in the late 19th and early 20th century to describe Austronesian peoples
- Overseas Malays, people of Malay race ancestry living outside Malay archipelago home areas
- Cape Malays, a Malay race descent or community in South Africa
- Cocos Malays, the predominant ethnic group (Malay race descent) of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, now part of Australia.
- Sri Lankan Malays, a Malay race descent or community in Sri Lanka
Malays (ethnic group), the ethnic group located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo
- Bruneian Malay people, ethnic Malays in Brunei Darussalam
- Malaysian Malays, a constitutionally defined group of Muslim Malaysian citizens
- Malay Indonesian, ethnic Malays in Indonesia
- Malay Singaporeans, a broad ethnic group defined by the Singaporean government
- Riau Malays, ethnic Malays who inhabit the area of Riau and the Riau Islands
- Thai Malays, ethnic Malays in Thailand

Malay (record producer) (born 1978), American music producer
Jessi Malay (born 1986), American singer in No Secrets
Malay Ghosh (born 1944), Indian statistician and Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida
Malay Roy Choudhury (born 1939), Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s
Malay Banerjee (born 1955), Indian former cricketer
Malay Bhowmick (born 1956)
Andrei Malay (born 1973)
Charlie Malay (1879–1905), professional baseball player
Joe Malay (1905–1989), American baseball player

Malay, Azerbaijan, a village in Azerbaijan
Malay, Aklan, a municipality in the Philippines
Malay, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire département of France
Malay Archipelago, the group of islands located between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia
Malay-le-Grand, a commune in the Yonne département of France
Malay-le-Petit, a commune in the Yonne département of France
Malay Peninsula, the geographic area containing Malaysia and Singapore, as well as parts of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand
Malay Sheykh-e Ginklik, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
Malay Town, the unofficial name for an area of Cairns in Australia

Peninsular Malaysia, a group of nine states of Malaysia (all located in West Malaysia) which have hereditary rulers
Malaysia, the modern country that encompasses most of the ancient Malay ethnic group states

Melayu Kingdom, a 7th-century classical Southeast Asian kingdom in Sumatra, Indonesia

Malay chicken, a breed of chicken originating in Asia
Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), a subspecies of tiger from the Malay peninsula

SS Malay, a Norwegian cargo ship in service from 1959 to 1961 and now known as SS Ambria
USS Malay (SP-735), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

Malay alphabet, the more common of the two alphabets used today to write the Malay language
Malay cuisine, the cuisine of Malay people of Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Mindanao and Southern Thailand
Malay Village, a museum in Geylang, Singapore
Malay world, the Malay-speaking countries of Southeast Asia, or the homeland of the Austronesian people