| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bahasa Malay |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bahasa Ma·lay |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m -l  , ml |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also Bahasa Me·la·yo (m-läy ) |
| NOUN: | See Malay (sense 2). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Malay bahasa Melayu, Malay language : bahasa, speech, language (from Sanskrit bh ) + Melayu, Malay.
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