Black

"Black" in Malay

aswad

(absorbing all light)

gelap

(without light)

gelap

(bad; evil)

hitam

(absorbing all light)

hitam

(relating to people with dark skin — see also dark-skinned link= A user suggests that this Translingual entry be cleaned up, giving the reason: “e.g. Dutch: neger (nl) m, negerin (nl) f and German: Schwarzer (de) m, Schwarze (de) f aren't translations of the adjective, but of the noun for which see below.” Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup(+) for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.)

lotong

(absorbing all light)

lutong

(absorbing all light)

lutung

(absorbing all light)

اسود

(absorbing all light)

لوتوڠ

(absorbing all light)

هيتم

(absorbing all light)

aswad

(colour/color)

hitam

(colour/color)

lotong

(colour/color)

lutong

(colour/color)

lutung

(colour/color)

اسود

(colour/color)

لوتوڠ

(colour/color)

هيتم

(colour/color)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.