English Explanatory Dictionary

Orang Asli

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Several different indigenous people of Malaya and peninsular Thailand.

Word forms

Orang Asli

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Malay Orang Asli, from orang (“person[s], people[s]”) + asli (“native”), calque of English aborigine.

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