Malaysianize

English

Etymology

Malaysian +‎ -ize

Verb

Malaysianize (third-person singular simple present Malaysianizes, present participle Malaysianizing, simple past and past participle Malaysianized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become Malaysian.
   • 2018, Terence Chong, Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asia:

     Although foreign missionaries have traditionally been significant in the history of Malaysian Christianity, this changed when the Malaysian government restricted the stay of foreign missionaries to no longer than ten years in the early 1970s through the Second Malaysia Plan in an effort to Malaysianize the country.

Translations

to make or become Malaysian

• Vietnamese: Mã Lai hóa, Mã Lai hoá