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:

    “That’s what an army is—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    ““The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
    “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)