Asian vs Malay

Asian and Malay both are nouns.

Asian and Malay both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Malay	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Malay is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Malay is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Malay: a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Malay (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
	a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

Asian (adjective)	Malay (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

Difference between Asian and Malay

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