Meanings
plural malarias
- archaiccountableuncountableSupposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.
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.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 149Synonyms: miasma
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
nounSupposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans malaria
- malariadisease
Arabic مَلَارِيَا
- مَلَارِيَا (malāriyā)disease
Bulgarian малария
- малария (malarija)disease
Catalan malària
- malàriadisease
Chinese Mandarin 瘧疾 /疟疾
- 瘧疾 /疟疾 (nüèji)disease
Czech malárie
- maláriedisease
Danish malaria
- malariadisease
Dutch malaria
- malariadisease
Esperanto malario, marĉofebro
- malariodisease
- marĉofebrodisease
Finnish malaria, horkka
- malariadisease
- horkkadisease
French paludisme, malaria
- paludismedisease
- malariadisease
German Malaria
- Malariadisease
Greek ελονοσία
- ελονοσία (elonosía)disease
Hebrew מָלַרְיָה
- מָלַרְיָה (malárya)disease
Hindi मलेरिया, सविराम ज्वर
- मलेरिया (maleriyā)disease
- सविराम ज्वर (savirām jvar)disease
Hungarian malária
- maláriadisease
Icelandic malaría
- malaríadisease
Indonesian malaria
- malariadisease
Japanese マラリア
- マラリア (mararia)disease
Korean 말라리아, 학질
- 말라리아 (mallaria)disease
- 학질 (hakjil)disease
Lithuanian maliarija
- maliarijadisease
Malay malaria
- malariadisease
Māori eku
- ekudisease
Norwegian Bokmål malaria
- malariadisease
Persian مالاریا
- مالاریا (mâlâryâ)disease
Polish malaria
- malariadisease
Portuguese malária, maleita
- maláriadisease
- maleitadisease
- paludismodisease
Punjabi ਤੇਈਆ, تیئیا
- ਤੇਈਆ (teīā)disease
- تیئیاdisease
Romanian malarie
- malariedisease
Russian маляри́я
- маляри́я (maljaríja)disease
Spanish paludismo, malaria
- paludismodisease
- malariadisease
Swahili malaria
- malariadisease
Swedish malaria
- malariadisease
Tagalog pangiki, malarya
- pangikidisease
- malaryadisease
Tamil மலேரியா
- மலேரியா (malēriyā)disease
Thai ไข้มาลาเรีย, ไข้จับสั่น
- ไข้มาลาเรีย (kâi maa-laa-ria)disease
- ไข้จับสั่นdisease
- ไข้ป่า (kâi-bpàa)disease
- ไข้ป้างdisease
- ไข้ร้อนเย็นdisease
- ไข้ดอกสักdisease
Turkish sıtma, malarya
- sıtmadisease
- malaryadisease
- hummadisease
- bataklık hummasıdisease
Ukrainian малярі́я, пропа́сниця
- малярі́я (maljaríja)disease
- пропа́сниця (propásnycja)disease
- лихома́нка (lyxománka)disease
Urdu ملیریا, باری کا بخار
- ملیریا (maleriyā)disease
- باری کا بخارdisease
Vietnamese sốt rét, bệnh sốt rét
- sốt rétdisease
- bệnh sốt rétdisease
Welsh malaria
- malariadisease
Zulu umalaleveva
- umalalevevadisease
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with malaria
Cite this entry
malaria. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malaria
“malaria.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malaria. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “malaria,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malaria.
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