Wondering how to use Malayan in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as malay or asian.
Malayan meaning
- A person of whatever ethnicity from the former Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia
- Either of two lycaenid butterflies of the genus Megisba of Asia and Australasia.
Using Malayan
- The main meaning on this page is: A person of whatever ethnicity from the former Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia | Either of two lycaenid butterflies of the genus Megisba of Asia and Australasia.
- Useful related words include: malay, asian, asiatic, malaysian.
- In the example corpus, malayan often appears in combinations such as: the malayan, malayan emergency, his malayan.
Context around Malayan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Malayan
- In this selection, "malayan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, indo, includes, united, emergency, waters and tigers stand out and add context to how "malayan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an agreed malayan curriculum and and the malayan peninsula were. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "malayan" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with malayan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Malayan tigers are on the brink of extinction. (8 words)
That includes Malayan tigers, Komodo dragons and sloth bears. (9 words)
He sent British troops to fight in the Malayan Emergency in 1948. (12 words)
When writing his Malayan stories, he consulted Alfred Russel Wallace 's The Malay Archipelago (1869), James Brooke 's journals, and books with titles like Perak and the Malays, My Journal in Malayan Waters, and Life in the Forests of the Far East. (42 words)
Zaragoza stressed that that the Asian Karting Open last leg was “a tremendous test of the team’s capabilities, bolstering overall team confidence in this debut race” of the team supported by Malayan Insurance and Resultado Gourmet Designs Co. (39 words)
Daim used the New Economic Policy’s stipulation of divestment of Chinese firms to ethnic Malays to take control of such institutions as the Chinese-owned United Malayan Banking Corporation, then the country’s second largest bank. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
When writing his Malayan stories, he consulted Alfred Russel Wallace 's The Malay Archipelago (1869), James Brooke 's journals, and books with titles like Perak and the Malays, My Journal in Malayan Waters, and Life in the Forests of the Far East.
Malayan tigers are on the brink of extinction.
That includes Malayan tigers, Komodo dragons and sloth bears.
Zaragoza stressed that that the Asian Karting Open last leg was “a tremendous test of the team’s capabilities, bolstering overall team confidence in this debut race” of the team supported by Malayan Insurance and Resultado Gourmet Designs Co.
Daim used the New Economic Policy’s stipulation of divestment of Chinese firms to ethnic Malays to take control of such institutions as the Chinese-owned United Malayan Banking Corporation, then the country’s second largest bank.
Treadell also pointed out that Eusoffe was the first Malayan to be given the Keys to the City of London in 1950.
Along with Kadaram, Pannai in present-day Sumatra and Malaiyur and the Malayan peninsula were attacked too.
Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil -language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed "Malayan curriculum".
Both nations had gained experience in counterinsurgency and jungle warfare during the Malayan Emergency and World War II.
British General Sir Gerald Templer authorized the use of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (Agent Orange) throughout the Malayan Emergency to destroy bushes, trees, and vegetation in order to deprive the insurgents of cover.
He sent British troops to fight in the Malayan Emergency in 1948.
However, U.S. officials considered using it, pointing out that the British had already used herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s.
Its influence flourished to other parts of Southeast Asia, including the Indo-Malayan Archipelago from about 2000 BC to 200 AD.
Prior to the formation of Malaysia in 1963, the then North Borneo interim government submitted a 20-point agreement to the Malayan government as conditions before North Borneo would join to formed the federation.
Some of the dwarf cultivars such as 'Malayan dwarf' have shown some promising resistance to lethal yellowing, while other cultivars such as 'Jamaican tall' are highly affected by the same plant disease.
The international railway line to Malaysia is an extension of the Malaysian rail network operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Malayan Railways).
The Malayan Emergency as it was known, lasted from 1948 to 1960, and involved a long anti-insurgency campaign by Commonwealth troops in Malaya.
There were doubts about the practicality of the idea but Lee assured the Malayan government of continued Malay political dominance in the new federation.
The Sultan was paid 5000 Malayan Dollars per year for the agreement.
They are entirely absent from Indo-Malayan waters. citation Monk seals and some otariids live in tropical and subtropical waters.
Common combinations with malayan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: