malai

Borrowed from Hindi मलाई (malāī).

• IPA^(key): /məˈlaɪ/

malai (uncountable)

1. (cooking) An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.
   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 109:

     The milk had malai on top.

• Lamia, Malia, ilama, lamia, malia

Borrowed from English Malay, from Malay Melayu.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈlaj]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈlaj]

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• Hyphenation: ma‧lai

malai (feminine malaia, masculine plural malais, feminine plural malaies)

1. Malay (pertaining to the Malay Peninsula, to the Malay people, or to the Malay language)

• península Malaia (“Malay Peninsula”)

malai m (plural malais, feminine malaia, feminine plural malaies)

1. Malay (an individual of the Malay people)

malai m (uncountable)

1. Malay (a Malayic language of Malaysia)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmalai̯/ [ˈma.lai̯]
• Rhymes: -alai̯
• Syllabification: ma‧lai

Inherited from Malay malai (“flower worn in the hair”), from Tamil மாலை (mālai), from Old Tamil 𑀫𑀸𑀮𑁃 (mālai).

malai (plural malai-malai)

1. panicle
2. spire
3. spikelet
4. ear (of paddy)

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

malai (plural malai-malai)

1. (botany) soft bollygum, bolly beech, Bollywood, bollygum, brown bollygum, brown Bollywood, sycamore, brown beech (Litsea glutinosa)

Borrowed from Blagar [Term?].

malai (plural malai-malai)

1. moko which is used as a dowry in the Blagar community in Alor

Borrowed from Banjarese [Term?].

malai

1. to be unable to absorb fuel (the wick on a kerosene stove)

• “malai”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

malai f

1. dative singular of mala

malai (Jawi spelling مالاي, plural malai-malai or malai²)

1. garland, especially an elaborate one adorned with gold, gemstones etc.

• "malai" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

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malai class ? (plural [please provide])

1. milk cream