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"Malayan" usually as exclamation points, hosts two feelings: a curse that is conditional on the result of an uncertain situation, together with the desire that such a result is desired. An expression increasingly less used, but still preserved in my town of Salamanca. Summarized in the expression of our elders: "Malaya who does not seem, to yours. . . even a Greyhound breed!" With a certain risk of error, I interpret "malaya" comes from "not found" as curse "is not found" If the established positive expectation is not met.