Bahasa Me·la·yu (m?-l??yo?o, -lä?-)n. See Malay.[Malay bahasa Melayu, Malay language : bahasa, speech, language (from Sanskrit bh???) + Melayu, Malay.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.