sentences:  For example, "anak" means 'child', and is used far more frequently than the gender-specific phrases "anak perempuan", 'female child' and so 'girl', and "anak lelaki", 'male child' and so 'boy'.Likewise, the words "doktor" ('doctor'), "pelayan" ('waiter') and most other nouns that are attributable to people are gender-neutral, and need to be modified by the adjectives "perempuan" or "lelaki" to become gendered (for animals, the adjectives "betina" and "jantan" are used instead; a "harimau betina" is a 'tigress').However, Malay vocabulary has many nouns borrowed from Arabic and Sanskrit that do indicate gender.