Malaysia

English thumb|240px|Flag of Malaysia Etymology en :af Malay -ia country 1 Affixation of en Malay -sia (alternative form of ms -ia), coined by British geographers in the 19th century as one of several terms used to refer to the Malay Archipelago,Harper, D. (n.d.). Malaysia. In Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved February 19, 2026, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/MalaysiaRoom Adrian Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for Over 5000 Natural Features, Countries, Capitals, Territories, Cities and Historic Sites McFarland & Company 2004 978-0-7864-1814-5 234 https://archive.org/details/placenamesofworl02edroom/page/234/mode/2up?q=Malaysia can be translated as "land of the Malays".https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/malaysia/ The World Factbook Malaysia 2020 w:Central Intelligence Agency 15 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211015225421/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/malaysia/ A popular folk etymology holds that the country name was formed by adding ⟨-si-⟩ to en Malaya, short for the former en Federation of Malaya, to honour the inclusion of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo (Sabah) when the country was formed. https://web.archive.org/web/20090317235536/http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/mahathir/mahathir961209.html 17 March 2009 http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/mahathir/mahathir961209.html Bound for Glory Spaeth Anthony Time New York 9 December 1996 Pronunciation en /məˈleɪ̯ʒə/ /məˈleɪ̯zi.ə/ RP,US en En-us-Malaysia.ogg US /məˈleɪ̯ʒə/ en /məˈlɛjʒə/ /məˈlɛjzɪjə/ SSB en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Malaysia.wav UK /məˈlɛjʒə/ en /məˈleʒə/ /məˈleze.ə/ /-ɪ.ə/ /-iə/ Scotland en /məˈleːʒə/ /məˈleːzi.ə/ Wales,non-toe-tow en /məlejsiə/ /məlejʃə/ Malaysia en /mɐˈleɪ̯.ʃɐ/ Philippines ms please add Malaysian pronunciation audio. Proper noun en Q833en country r/Southeast Asia Kuala Lumpur. en obsolete The Malay Archipelago. en https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbookfo0000unse/page/18/mode/2up 1842 System of Descriptive Geography, Founded on the Works of Malte-Burn and Balbi Adam and Charles Black Edinburgh 974 https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZI5QAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA974#v=onepage&q&f=false For the purpose of topographical description, Malaysia may be divided into six groups of islands, namely — 1. Sumatra, and the smaller islands adjacent ; 2. The long chain of islands which extends east and west from the Strait of Sunda to New Guinea, including Java, Madura, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Comobo, Flares, Jindana or Sandelwood, Adenar, Solor, Lomblem, Pantar, Ombay, Timor, Semao, Rotte, Savu, Cambi, Wetter, Serwatty, Babba, Timorlaut, &c. ; 3. The Banda and Molucca Islands ; 4. Celebes and the smaller adjacent islands; 5. Borneo and adjacent islands; 6. The Philippine Islands. Derived terms en Bahasa Malaysia East Malaysia Malaysian Manglish My-<t:prefix for compounds related to Malaysia> MyKad MyNIISe<t:[Malaysian] National Integrated Immigration System> Peninsular Malaysia West Malaysia Descendants zh 馬來西亞 1 ja 1 マレーシア Marēshia hu 1 Malajzia ms 1 Malaysia lv 1 Malaizija lt 1 Malaizija mi 1 Marēhia fa 1 مالیزیا sh 1 Màlēzija sk 1 Malajzia sl 1 Malẹ́zija uk 1 Мала́йзія Translations Q833 country in Southeast Asia Abkhaz: ab Малаизиа Afrikaans: af Maleisië Albanian: sq Malajzi f indefinite, sq Malajzia f definite Amharic: am ማሌዢያ Arabic: ar مَالَيْزِيَا f malayziyā Hijazi Arabic: acw ماليزيا f mālīzya Armenian: hy Մալայզիա Assamese: as মালয়েছিয়া Asturian: ast Malasia f Azerbaijani: az Malayziya Bashkir: ba Малайзия Belarusian: be Мала́йзія f Bengali: bn মালয়েশিয়া Breton: br Malaysia Bulgarian: bg Мала́йзия f Burmese: my မလေးရှား Catalan: ca Malàisia f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 馬來西亞 maa5 loi4 sai1 aa3 Dungan: dng Малащи Eastern Min: cdo 馬來西亞 Hakka: hak 馬來西亞 Mâ-lòi-sî-â, Mâ-lòi-sî-á Hokkien: nan-hbl 馬來西亞 Má-lâi-se-a Mandarin: cmn 馬來西亞 Mǎláixīyà Wu: wuu 馬來西亞 Czech: cs Malajsie f Danish: da Malaysia n Dhivehi: dv މެލޭޝިޔާ Dutch: nl Maleisië n Esperanto: eo Malajzio Estonian: et Malaisia Finnish: fi Malesia French: fr Malaisie f Galician: gl Malaisia f Georgian: ka მალაიზია German: de Malaysia n, de Malaysien n Greek: el Μαλαισία f Gujarati: gu મલેશિયા Haitian Creole: ht Malezi Hausa: ha Malaisiya Hawaiian: haw Malaia, haw Malaisia Hebrew: he מָלֶזְיָה f malezya Hindi: hi मलेशिया m Hungarian: hu Malajzia Icelandic: is Malasía f Ido: io Malaizia Indonesian: id Malaysia Interlingua: ia Malaysia Italian: it Malesia f Japanese: ja マレーシア Marēshia Kalenjin: kln Malesia Kamba: kam Malesia Kannada: kn ಮಲೇಶಿಯ Kazakh: kk Малайзия Khmer: km ម៉ាឡេស៊ី Kikuyu: ki Malesia Korean: ko ^말레이시아 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr Malezya Kyrgyz: ky Малайзия Lao: lo ມາເລເຊັຽ, lo ມາເລເຊຍ Latin: la Malaesia f Latvian: lv Malaizija f Lithuanian: lt Malaizija f Lü: khb ᦙᦱᦟᦻᧉᦌᦲᧈᦊᦱᧈ Luhya: luy Malesia Luo: luo Malesia Macedonian: mk Малезија f Malay: ms Malaysia Jawi: ms مليسيا Malayalam: ml മലേഷ്യ Maltese: mt Malażja f Il-Malażja Manx: gv Malaysia f Yn Valaysia Māori: mi Marēhia Marathi: mr मलेशिया Meru: mer Malesia Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Малайз Mongolian script: mn ᠮᠠᠯᠠᠶᠢᠽ Navajo: nv Maléízha Nepali: ne मलेशिया Norman: nrf Malaysie f Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Malaysia n Nynorsk: nn Malaysia n Odia: or ମାଲେସିଆ Pashto: ps مالیزیا f māleziyā, ps مالېزيا f māleziyā Persian: Dari: prs مَالِیزِیَا, prs مَالَیْزِیَا Iranian Persian: fa-ira مالِزی Polish: pl Malezja f Portuguese: pt Malásia f Punjabi: Gurmukhi: pa ਮਲੇਸ਼ੀਆ m Shahmukhi: pa مَلیشیا m Romanian: ro Malaezia f, ro Malaysia f Russian: ru Мала́йзия f Sanskrit: sa मलयेशिया, sa मलेशिया, sa मलेशियादेश Scots: sco Malaysie Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Ма̀ле̄зија f Latin: sh Màlēzija f Sindhi: sd ملائيشيا Sinhalese: si මලයාසියාව Slovak: sk Malajzia f Slovene: sl Malézija f Spanish: es Malasia f Swahili: sw Malaysia, sw Malesia Swedish: sv Malaysia n Tagalog: tl Malasya Tajik: tg Малайзия Tamil: ta மலேசியா Tatar: tt Малайзия Telugu: te మలేషియా Tetum: tet Malázia Thai: th มาเลเซีย Tibetan: bo མ་ལ་ཤི་ཡ Tongan: to Maleisia Turkish: tr Malezya Turkmen: tk Malaýziýa Ukrainian: uk Мала́йзія f Urdu: ur مَلائِیشِیا m, ur مَلائِشِیا m Uyghur: ug مالايسىيا Uzbek: uz Malayziya Vietnamese: vi Ma-lai-xi-a, vi Mã Lai (vi 馬來) Yiddish: yi מאַלײַזיע n Yoruba: yo Màléṣíà Zhuang: za Majlaizsihya Zulu: zu eMalaysia See also Countries of the world References Danish Proper noun da proper nouns da Malaysia Q833 German Pronunciation de [maˈlaɪ̯zi̯a] de De-Malaysia.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Ma lay sia Proper noun toponym de Malaysia Q833 de Malaysien Austria Further reading de Indonesian id: Etymology From id en Malaysia. Pronunciation ma.lāy.sia 0 Proper noun id proper noun id Malaysia Q833 id orang Malaysia Malaysian (person) See also Further reading Malay ms: Alternative forms ms Mesia pronunciation spelling Etymology ms en Malaysia, via en Malay -sia Land of the Malays, the root being from ms Melayu. Pronunciation ms SV ms [mə.le.si.ə] [mə.le.ʃə] [ma.le.si.ə] Malaysia ms Ms-my-Malaysia.ogg Malaysia ms [ma.laj.si.ə] [ma.laj.ʃə] Indonesia ms iə ʃə ə 4 ms AV ms [mə.le.si.a] [mə.le.ʃa] [ma.le.si.a] Malaysia ms [ma.laj.si.a] [ma.laj.ʃa] Indonesia ms ia ʃa a 4 ms Ma lay si a Proper noun مليسيا ms Malaysia Q833 ms orang Malaysia Malaysian (person) Derived terms ms anak Malaysia<t:child of Malaysia, a Malaysian citizen><q:endearing> Bahasa Malaysia<t:Malaysian language, Malay> Malaysia Boleh<t:Malaysia can do it, a sarcastic slogan> M'sia ms Affixations memalaysiakan<t:to Malaysianise> kemalaysiaan<t:Malaysianness> pemalaysiaan<t:Malaysianisation> Descendants ja 1 マライシア Maraishia obsolete See also ms Tanah Melayu Further reading Manx Etymology Borrowed from gv en Malaysia. Proper noun gv proper noun f Yn Valaysia gv Malaysia Q833 Related terms gv Malayish Yn Valayish Malay Mutation M alaysia Norwegian Bokmål no: Proper noun nb proper noun nb Malaysia Q833 See also nb malaysier nb malaysisk Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Proper noun nn proper noun nn Malaysia Q833 See also nn malaysiar nn malaysisk Swahili sw: Proper noun sw proper noun sw Malaysia Q833 sw Malesia Swedish sv: Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Malaysia.wav Proper noun n sv Malaysia Q833 Related terms sv malaysier sv malaysisk sv malaysiska See also References saol Svensk MeSH Tagalog tl: Etymology tl :ubor en:Malaysia + 1 Pronunciation + Maleysia Ma.lay.sia Proper noun + tl Malaysia Q833 tl Malasya Coordinate terms