malaios
Malaios is a term used in Greek-language sources to denote a Malay person or related ethnographic reference. In Modern Greek, it functions as the masculine singular form of the ethnonym associated with the Malay people of Maritime Southeast Asia, distinct from English-language usage of “Malay” in ordinary texts. The transliterated form “Malaios” may appear in academic or historical works that quote Greek texts or discuss Greek ethnography.
Geographically, Malays are an ethnolinguistic group primarily associated with the Malay Peninsula, the coastlines of Sumatra,
In linguistic and cultural discussions, the distinction between Malaios as a Greek ethnonym and Malay as an
See also: Malay people, Malay language, Malays, Malay Peninsula, Malayo-Polynesian languages.