Asiatic vs Malay

Malay vs Asiatic

Asiatic and Malay both are nouns.

Asiatic and Malay both are adjectives.

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

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

Asiatic: 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 Asiatic 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.

Asiatic (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

Asiatic (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 Asiatic and Malay

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