Noun: Malagasy
| Singular | Malagasy |
| Plural | Malagasy; Malagasies |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like Malagasy
small fry,
Bungy,
pirozhky,
military,
Romany,
atomy,
tunny,
Malagasy,
fokontany,
peroshky,
goby,
Etymology
Borrowed from Malagasy malagasy, connected to Mālāī-Jezīra, “island of Mālāī”. Compare English Madagascar, which by folk etymology comes from Marco Polo's misreading of Mogadishu whereas it should be Arabic جَزِيرَة المَالَائِيّ (jazīrat al-mālāʔiyy, “the Island of Mālāī”).