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malaysia

/məˈleɪ̯ʒə/

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What does malaysia mean?

proper noun

  1. A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Kuala Lumpur.
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proper noun

  1. (obsolete) The Malay Archipelago.

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/məˈleɪ̯ʒə/

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/məˈleɪ̯zi.ə/
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Taiwan has become a major investor in China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1994 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #180
Keane describes the Indonesians as a Proto-Caucasic race which must have occupied Malaysia and the Philippines in the New Stone Age.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
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Taiwan has become a major investor in China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1992 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #48
This miryachit was observed in Malaysia, Bengal, among the Sikhs and the Nubians, and in Siberia, whilst Beard has observed it in Michigan as well as in Maine.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747
It is found amongst nearly all the native tribes of America; the peoples of Malaysia, Melanesia, Australia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, the Dravidian tribes of India; in Africa it is found in the eastern Sahara, the Soudan, the east and west coast, and in the centre of the continent, but not to the exclusion, altogether, of father-right, while in the north the intrusion of Europeans and the followers of Islam has tended to suppress it.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966