Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Madagascar.
- noun The Austronesian language of the Malagasy.
- adjective Of or relating to Madagascar, the Malagasy, or their language or culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants.
- noun A native of Madagascar; a member of any of the races or tribes inhabiting that island.
- noun The language of Madagascar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person from
Madagascar or of Malagasy descent. - proper noun The languages of
Madagascar or of the Malagasy people, when considered to be one language. - proper noun in particular The chief
lect of this language or language group. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Madagascar.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Malagasy people.
- adjective Of, pertaining to or in the Malagasy language.
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Examples
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Malagasy is awesome, you know how in English you've got "here" vs "there"?
mrissa: Also mrissa 2010
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Thanks, I hadn't realized how much elision of vowels there was -- this page says "Unstressed vowels are often elided, e.g., word Malagasy with accent on the syllable -ga- is pronounced as malgas."
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In the so-called Malagasy textile, each warp is made from 96 spun strands of spider silk and each brocading weft has 10 of those threads together - so 960 strands in total.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In the so-called Malagasy textile, each warp is made from 96 spun strands of spider silk and each brocading weft has 10 of those threads together - so 960 strands in total.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In the so-called Malagasy textile, each warp is made from 96 spun strands of spider silk and each brocading weft has 10 of those threads together - so 960 strands in total.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar/older name Malagasy Republic/République malgache is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa.
WN.com - Articles related to Do Indian laws apply to Hindu marriage outside country? 2010
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Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar/older name Malagasy
WN.com - Articles related to Do Indian laws apply to Hindu marriage outside country? 2010
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Or the final y may not be pronounced at all; for example, "Malagasy" is pronounced the same as "malgache".
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This was with the full approval of the king, who was a kind of Malagasy Peter the Great, and ardently desired that his people should be enlightened.
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"Notanisaina teny an-kianja daholo androany ireo teboka efa ho folo lazain'ireo mpomba an'i Andry fa fanitsakitsahana lalampanorenana nataon'Atoa Ravalomanana Marc, ka tafiditra ho isan'ny tena antony azo analana azy amin'ny toerany, ka isan'izany ny resaha 'haute trahison' momba ny fanafarana mpikarama an'ady hamono ny taranaka Malagasy, ny fanaovana fanavakavahana ara-pinoana sns ….
Global Voices Online Mialy Andriamananjara 2009
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