Category:Malay terms by usage

Malay terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Malay archaic terms: Malay terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Malay censored spellings: Malay spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
• Category:Malay childish terms: Malay terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Malay colloquialisms: Malay terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Malay dated terms: Malay terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Malay derogatory terms: Malay terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Malay dialectal terms: Malay terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Malay endearing terms: Malay terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Malay formal terms: Malay terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Malay higher register terms: Malay terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Malay honorific terms: Malay honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Malay humorous terms: Malay terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Malay informal terms: Malay terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Malay nonstandard terms: Malay terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Malay obsolete terms: Malay terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Malay offensive terms: Malay terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Malay placeholder terms: Malay terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Malay poetic terms: Malay terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Malay polite terms: Malay polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Malay proscribed terms: Malay terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Malay rare terms: Malay terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Malay royal terms: Malay terms used only by royalty.
• Category:Malay self-deprecatory terms: Malay self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Malay short forms: Malay terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Malay slang: Malay colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Malay superseded forms: Malay forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
• Category:Malay technical terms: Malay terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Malay terms with archaic senses: Malay terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Malay terms with historical senses: Malay terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Malay terms with obsolete senses: Malay terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Malay terms with rare senses: Malay rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Malay terms with uncommon senses: Malay uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Malay vulgarities: Malay terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.