Malay Food Words For Reading Menus And Ordering

Reading the Menu

Malay-English

air - water

ayam - chicken
bir - beer
buah - fruit
epal - apple

gula - sugar

ikan - fish
keju - cheese
kopi - coffee
lemon -lemon

oren - orange
strawberi - strawberry
sup - soup

telur - egg
tomato - tomato
wain - wine

Asking for Food

English - Malay

apple - epal
beer - bir
cheese - keju

chicken - ayam
coffee - kopi

egg - telur

fish - ikan
fruit - buah
lemon - lemon
orange - oren

soup - sup
strawberry - strawberi
sugar - gula
tomato - tomato

water - air
wine - wain

Useful Websites

Duolingo has a course on Indonesian which is similar to the Malay language.


duolingo forum Malay

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/12/malay-words-for-meal-times.html

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Translation of Malay sign on a Singapore train

Problem
I see the words in Malay on a train many times in a visit, so I could learn them. What do they mean?

Answer
Take a photo and put them into Google translate later.

Story
I was so busy in Singapore I did not have time to translate until days after I took my photo. But at last I have the answers.

Tips/Glossary
The English reads:
Emergency exit at both ends of the train.

The Malay reads:
Pintu keluar kecemasan di sebelah hadapan dan belakang kereta api

Here it is word by word

Malay - English
anda - you
api - fire
belakang - rear (back)
dan - and
di -at
hadapan - front (think head of the train)
kereta - car
kereta api - train
pintu - door
sebelah - beside

English - Malay
and - dan
at - di
car - kereta
door - pints
fire - api
front - hadapan
rear - belakang
train - kereta api
you - and a

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