Wiktionary:Requested entries (Malay)

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a, A

• absah - Jawi spelling ابسه

b, B

• barat semata Selatan (“south-west, Classical Malay”)
• bawat - Jawi spelling باوت
• baloi - worth
• berbaloi -worth a value
• berempah - spicy? I think it actually means crumbed?
• berlauk - commonly seen in nasi berlauk - perhaps something like "with side dishes"?
• biarlah - never mind

c, C

• candat - a type of fishing gear
• cali - Brunei Malay for "funny", comes from Charlie Chaplin 72.76.95.136 14:22, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
• cham - a drink in Malaysia, a mixture of coffee and tea, written 掺 in Chinese
• cun

d, D

• dengkur - snore?
• diserang - catch a cold/disease?
• ditumbuhi - overgrown?

g, G

• gesper - a buckle?

j, J

jerebu - haze

k, K

• kantung
• kayu buku This seems to be the origin of English kiabooca, an old name for amboyna burls [[1]].
• kopi c, kopi-c
• kopi cham
• kopi o, kopi-o
• kandar
• keseorangan - solitude?
• kudap - snack?
• kudapan - snack (inflected/derived form)?
• kurang

l, L

• lintas - way? route? path?
• lembik - limp?

m, M

• macam mana - interjection - something like how's it going? maybe has multiple meanings?
• Matriyer - slang, interjection - slang for "selamat Hari Raya" (Happy Eid-ul Fitr) PulauKakatua19 (talk) 06:40, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
• melorongkan - related to the word lorong for "lane, alley"
• memandu - drive?
• mudarat - harm
• memudaratkan - harmful
• menaiktaraf - upgrading PulauKakatua19 (talk) 03:38, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
• menaip - type?
• menunjukkan - identify?
• membutikan - identify?
• mencukur - shave?
• mengenali - recognise? identify?
• meningkatkan
• menunggang - ride?

o, O

• Orang Laut - several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands

p, P

• paret
• pelanggam - (context: (title) Piagam pelanggam Bank Simpanan Nasional. Possibly a code of conduct for the bank employees.)
• persisiran
• pondok polis - police box?

No, it's mean police hut not police box.

• panggilan - phonecall? call? phone call? telephone call?
• penyodok - found at the Chinese Edition of Wiktionary

r, R

• reruntuhan - ruin? ruins?
• runtuhan - ruin? ruins?

s, S

• sama ada - its Malay synonyms include apakah and ataukah. When used with atau as in sama ada... atau... it is equivalent to baik... mahupun. Maybe it’s almost equivalent to “either... or...” in English?
• sama satu lain - each other
• sambar - needs Malay per R:PRPM
• satu demi satu - little by little
• sendirian
• Silat Melayu - a blanket term for the types of silat created in peninsular Southeast Asia
• Siapa makan cili, dia rasa pedas - Malay proverb?
• seketika - a moment?
• separuh
• selesema - a cold?
• sebuah - a/one - counter/classifier for fruit and other things?
• sejumlah - an amount? or a classifier?
• seekor - a/one counter/classifier for animals?
• segelas - a/one counter/classifier for glasses and cups of beverage?
• sepucuk - a/one counter/classifier for ?
• secangkir - a/one counter/classifier for cups of beverage?
• secara
• sinar-X - X-ray
• singkir - curb
• sudah lama - longer
• sudah semestinya - of course, but not sure if it would be SOP or not
• Suluk - Malay term referring to Tausug people, a Visayan ethnic group originally from Sulu Archipelago inhabiting the eastern coast of Malaysian state of Sabah & northeastern portion of Indonesian province of North Kalimantan.

t, T

• tanjak - traditional Malay headdress for men, especially nobility and royalty PulauKakatua19 (talk) 03:50, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
• teh c, teh-c
• teh o, teh-o
• tomoi - Malaysian name for Muay Thai
• tinggalkan
• terlupa
• terpaling - most
• terpisah

u, U

• unjuk

y, Y

• yuanyang, yuenyeung, yinyeung, yinyong - a drink in Malaysia and Singapore, a mixture of coffee and tea, same as cham above