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:

    “Education [is not] a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.”
    —Edward Blishen (b. 1920)

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    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)