malaria

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• /məˈlɛəɹi.ə/
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Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Introduced into English by the Scottish geologist John MacCulloch (1773–1835). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: malaria — disease
• Akan: atiridii — disease
• Arabic: مَلَارِيَا (malāriyā) — disease
• Armenian: մալարիա (malaria) — disease
• Armenian: դողէրոցք (doġērocʻkʻ) — disease
• Belarusian: маляры́я (maljarýja) — disease
• Bulgarian: малария (malarija) — disease
• Burmese: ငှက်ဖျား (hngakhpya:) — disease
• Buryat: хумхаа (xumxaa) — disease
• Buryat: ᠬᠤᠮᠬᠠᠬ᠋ ᠠ (qumkaq-a) — disease
• Catalan: malària — disease
• Chamicuro: chukchu — disease
• Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎠᏓᏗᏞᎲᏍᎬ (dalonige adaditlehvsgv) — disease
• Chichewa: malungo — disease
• Chinese Mandarin: 瘧疾 /疟疾 (nüèji) — disease
• West Circassian: техьагъу (teḥağwu) — disease
• Crimean Tatar: sıtma — disease
• Czech: malárie — disease
• Danish: malaria — disease
• Dinka: mayoŋ — disease
• Dutch: malaria — disease
• Esperanto: malario — disease
• Esperanto: marĉofebro — disease
• Ewe: asrã — disease
• Finnish: malaria — disease
• Finnish: horkka — disease
• French: paludisme — disease
• French: malaria — disease
• Georgian: მალარია (malaria) — disease
• German: Malaria — disease
• Greek: ελονοσία (elonosía) — disease
• Gujarati: ટાઢિયો તાવ (ṭāḍhiyo tāv) — disease
• Gujarati: મલેરિયા (maleriyā) — disease
• Hebrew: מָלַרְיָה (malárya) — disease
• Hindi: मलेरिया (maleriyā) — disease
• Hindi: सविराम ज्वर (savirām jvar) — disease
• Hungarian: malária — disease
• Icelandic: malaría — disease
• Igbo: ịba — disease
• Indonesian: malaria — disease
• Japanese: マラリア (mararia) — disease
• Kabiye: wɩsɩ kʋdɔŋ — disease
• Kalmyk: безг (bezg) — disease
• Kazakh: безгек (bezgek) — disease
• Khmer: ជំងឺគ្រុនចាញ់ (cumŋɨɨ krun caɲ) — disease
• K'iche': räx tew — disease
• K'iche': chʼaqiʼ tew — disease
• Korean: 말라리아 (mallaria) — disease
• Korean: 학질 (hakjil) — disease
• Central Kurdish: لەرزوتا (lerzuta) — disease
• Northern Kurdish: lerzeta — disease
• Kyrgyz: безгек (bezgek) — disease
• Lao: ໄຂ້ຍຸງ (khng) — disease
• Lao: ໄຂ້ປ່າ (khai pā) — disease
• Lithuanian: maliarija — disease
• Macedonian: маларија (malarija) — disease
• Malagasy: tazo — disease
• Malay: malaria — disease
• Malayalam: മലമ്പനി (malampani) — disease
• Maltese: malarja — disease
• Marathi: हिवताप (hivtāp) — disease
• Marathi: शीतज्वर (śītajvar) — disease
• Marathi: मलेरिया (maleriyā) — disease
• Māori: eku — disease
• Mongolian: хумхаа (xumxaa) — disease
• Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠮᠬᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (qumkaɣ-a) — disease
• Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: atonahuistli — disease
• Nandi: es — disease
• Northern Ndebele: uqhuqho — disease
• Nepali: औलो (aulo) — disease
• Newar: अउल (aula) — disease
• Norwegian Bokmål: malaria — disease
• Norwegian Nynorsk: malaria — disease
• Old English: unlyft — disease
• Old Tupi: karasy — disease
• Oromo: busaa — disease
• Persian: مالاریا (mâlâryâ) — disease
• Polish: malaria — disease
• Portuguese: malária — disease
• Portuguese: maleita — disease
• Portuguese: paludismo — disease
• Punjabi: ਤੇਈਆ (teīā) — disease
• Punjabi: تیئیا — disease
• Quechua: chukchu — disease
• Romanian: malarie — disease
• Russian: маляри́я (maljaríja) — disease
• Santali: ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱤ ᱨᱩᱣᱟᱹ (pări ruvă) — disease
• Serbo-Croatian: маларија — disease
• Serbo-Croatian: malarija — disease
• Sinhalese: මැලේරියාව (mælēriyāwa) — disease
• Slovene: malarija — disease
• Southern Altai: калтырак оору (kaltïrak ooru) — disease
• Spanish: paludismo — disease
• Spanish: malaria — disease
• Swahili: malaria — disease
• Swedish: malaria — disease
• Tagalog: pangiki — disease
• Tagalog: malarya — disease
• Tajik: вараҷа (varaja) — disease
• Tajik: табдард (tabdard) — disease
• Tamil: மலேரியா (malēriyā) — disease
• Thai: ไข้มาลาเรีย (kâi maa-laa-ria) — disease
• Thai: ไข้จับสั่น — disease
• Thai: ไข้ป่า (kâi-bpàa) — disease
• Thai: ไข้ป้าง — disease
• Thai: ไข้ร้อนเย็น — disease
• Thai: ไข้ดอกสัก — disease
• Tibetan: འདར་ནད ('dar nad) — disease
• Tsonga: dzedzedze — disease
• Turkish: sıtma — disease
• Turkish: malarya — disease
• Turkish: humma — disease
• Turkish: bataklık humması — disease
• Ukrainian: малярі́я (maljaríja) — disease
• Ukrainian: пропа́сниця (propásnycja) — disease
• Ukrainian: лихома́нка (lyxománka) — disease
• Urdu: ملیریا (maleriyā) — disease
• Urdu: باری کا بخار — disease
• Uzbek: bezgak — disease
• Vietnamese: bệnh sốt rét — disease
• Volapük: malar — disease
• Welsh: malaria — disease
• Wolof: sibbiru — disease
• Yoruba: akọ ibà — disease
• Zulu: umalaleveva — disease