Malay Language - Borrowed Words

Borrowed Words

Main article: List of Malay loanwords

The Malay language has many words borrowed from Arabic (mainly religious terms), Sanskrit, Tamil, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, English (in particular many scientific and technological terms).

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Famous quotes containing the words borrowed and/or words:

    “As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Words like “freedom,” “justice,” “democracy” are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”
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