Malayanize
English
Etymology
Malayan + -ize
Verb
Malayanize (third-person singular simple present Malayanizes, present participle Malayanizing, simple past and past participle Malayanized)
- To make Malayan.
- 1954, Walter Henry Judd, Special Study Mission to Southeast Asia and the Pacific: A Report:
- Due to their limited education, the service is not likely to be “Malayanized” for many years.
- 1977, Urban Anthropology, volume 6, page 212:
- In the ecological structure of some of the Malaysian cities the principles of an Islamized and Malayanized image of the Indian city of ancient Southeast Asia are still to be seen.
- 2015, Major Richard B. Johnson, Biggest Stick: The Employment Of Artillery Units In Counterinsurgency:
- At higher levels, the SWECs and DWECs began Malayanizing their elements in order to aid the transition to an independent national government; Malayans now had responsibility for their decisions in the counterinsurgency fight.
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Related terms
- Malayanization