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Malaydesh
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Indonesian
id Sloppy formatting, poor English. Possibly also POV
Alternative forms
id Malayadesh Molayudesh
Etymology
id Malaysia Bangladesh.
This term was first created by a Malaysian blogger in 2010 as a comparison between local workers and foreign workers from Bangladesh.ms Mohammad 'Uzair Bin Abdullah Zen https://pemecahfikiran.blogspot.com/2010/05/bangladesh-vs-malaydesh-judibola.html BanglaDesh VS MalayDesh.... _judiBola_ Pemecah Fikiran 2010-05-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20111215092836/http://pemecahfikiran.blogspot.com/2010/05/bangladesh-vs-malaydesh-judibola.html 2011-12-15 Along with its inverted counterpart Banglasia, such use remained largely unknown in Indonesia, until it went popularised by various anti-Malaysia groups in late 2023 as a retaliation insult towards Malaysia for its presence of Bangladeshi migrant worker migrant labour because of Malaysian insult based on allegation of many marriages between Indonesian and Bangladeshi migrant workers. The sense was later extended as an retaliation insult towards Malaysia's presence of Malaysian Indians its own Indian diaspora (especially Tamil Malaysians Tamils for similar darker complexion) and their cultures and/or their Hinduism in Malaysia Hindu faith more visible than Hinduism in Indonesia that in Indonesia as Anti-Indian_sentiment#Malaysia Malaysian Indophobic insult for Indonesian similarity to India.
Pronunciation
Malaydésy Maléydésy<a:nonstandard> Malédésy<a:nonstandard> - Ma.lay.desh
Proper noun
id derogatory internet slang ethnic slur Malaysia with regards to presence of South Asians there including Bengalis and Tamils
id Banglasia
id 2025-10-26 @malaydeshia TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@malaydeshia/photo/7565437975400566017 Seorang guru dari negara prindavan cabang Malaydesh sudah mulai ketar-ketir, mengingat banyaknya siswa dan siswi mereka menggunakan bahasa Indonesia ketimbang bahasa Malaydesh yg bunyi macam s4mp4h. An Indian teacher from Malaysia was horrified, seeing many of their students are using Indonesian language instead of Malaysian language Malaydesh language, which sounds like tr4sh.
See also
id Borneo Borneodesh ms:Indodesh,ms:Indondesh Prindapan
References
id Derogatory names for countries