malaria

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).

• IPA^(key): /məˈlɛə.ɹi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiə

malaria (countable and uncountable, plural malarias)

2. (pathology) A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.

   Synonyms: ague, (archaic) paludism

3. (archaic) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.

   Synonym: miasma

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 149:

     The doctor had his hands full, as the air was so impregnated with malaria that men who had only landed some twenty-four hours were laid low with this extraordinarily violent type of fever.

• malaria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Italian malaria.

malaria c (singular definite malariaen, not used in plural form)

1. (pathology) malaria

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• Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria

malaria f (uncountable)

1. malaria

• → Caribbean Hindustani: maláriyá

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

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Borrowed from Italian malaria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlɑriɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧la‧ria

malaria

1. malaria

   Synonym: horkka

• “malaria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Maalari, maalari

French Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

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• IPA^(key): /ma.la.ʁja/

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malaria f (plural malarias)

1. malaria

   Synonym: paludisme

• “malaria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• alarmai

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^id

From Dutch malaria, from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).

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• Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria

malaria (plural malaria-malaria)

1. (medicine) malaria, a disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.

• “malaria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

malaria (uncountable)

1. malaria

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^it

From mal- (“bad”) +‎ aria (“air”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈla.rja/
• Rhymes: -arja
• Hyphenation: ma‧là‧ria

malaria f (plural malarie)

1. (pathology) malaria

• malarico

• alamari

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maˈla.ri.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈla.ri.a/,

malaria f (genitive malariae); first declension

1. (New Latin) malaria

First-declension noun.

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^no

From Italian mala aria.

malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)

1. malaria

• “malaria” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

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From Italian mala aria.

malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)

1. malaria

• “malaria” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

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Borrowed from Italian malaria.

• IPA^(key): /maˈla.rja/

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• Rhymes: -arja
• Syllabification: ma‧la‧ria

malaria f

1. malaria

   Synonyms: febra, zimnica

• malaria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• malaria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /maˈlaɾja/
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: ma‧la‧ria

malaria f (plural malarias)

1. malaria

• “malaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From English malaria.

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malaria class IX (plural malaria class X)

1. malaria

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).

• IPA^(key): /ma¹lɑːrɪa/,

malaria c (uncountable)

1. malaria

• kinin
• mygga

• malaria in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• malaria in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• malaria in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From English malaria.

malaria

1. malaria