Malay Greetings, Signs, Everyday Words

Malay - English

(In order in the sentence)

pintu - door

keluar -exit (adjectives follow nouns in Malay)

kecemasan - emergency / worried

di - at

sebelah - next door

hadapan - forward

dan - and

belakang - back 

kereta - car

api - fire

Malay - English 

(alphabetically)

api - fire (Both words contain the letter i, think of alight, potent)

belakang - back (both words have b a k)

dan - and

di - at

hadapan - forward

kecemasan - emergency (or worried)

keluar - exit

kereta - car (carriage of railway)

pintu - door

sebelah - next door

English - Malay

and - dan

at - di

back - belakang

car - kereta

door - pintu

exit - keluar

emergency - kecemasan

fire - api

forward - hadapan

next door - sebelah

Problem
What are those Malay signs? How do I say goodbye and thank you?

Answers
English - Malay / Indonesian

Welcome - Selamat tinggal
Goodbye - Selamat datang

Good morning - Selamat pagi (Every day is a new page. Good morning.)
Good afternoon - Selamat petang (The letters an in petang looks like a.m.)
Good night -Selamat malam

danger - bahaya (Reminds me of the phrase on beachside signs in tsunami areas - danger ... climb to higher ground.)
exit - keluar (The x and K are a similar shape, like people running from danger, from a door, in two directions.)
Entrance - Pintu masuk
door - pintu

Malay / Indonesian - English

bahaya - danger
keluar - exit
malam - night
masuk - go in
pagi - morning

petang - afternoon
pintu - door
pintu masuk - entrance
Selamat malam - Good night
Selamat pagi - good morning

Selamat petang - Good afternoon
Selamat tinggal - welcome
tinggal - live (If you and this girl are alive, and you are tickled, you are tingling.)

Author
Angela Lansbury, teacher of English and other languages. Home tutor, workshops, speeches for colleges and businesses.