Sorry, should have added a explanation. The first character of 馬來 is "horse" and the second is "come/arrive". So I was sitting there puzzling it out until I re

Sorry, should have added a explanation. The first character of 馬來 is "horse" and the second is "come/arrive". So I was sitting there puzzling it out until I realised that if I pronounced it in Mandarin, it sounded a lot like "Malay" - which is in fact what it means.