malaria

/məˈlɛəɹi.ə/

malaria noun: a disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.

Noun

malaria (countable and uncountable, plural malarias)

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

Synonyms:

ague, paludism
(archaic) Supposed 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 149
Synonyms:

miasma

malaria meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

malaria in Hindi

disease: मलेरिया maleriyā, सविराम ज्वर savirām jvar

malaria in Marathi

disease: हिवताप hivtāp, शीतज्वर śītajvar, मलेरिया maleriyā

malaria in Urdu

disease: ملیریا maleriyā, باری کا بخار

More languagesFewer languages

malaria in Bengali: ম্যালেরিয়া রোগ
malaria in Telugu: మలవేకి malavēki
malaria in Malayalam: മലമ്പനി malampani
malaria in Kannada: ಮಲೇರಿಯಜ್ವರ, ಚಳಿಜ್ವರ, ಚಳಿಬಿಸುಪು
malaria in Punjabi: ਤੇਈਆ teīā, تیئیا
malaria in Gujarati: ટાઢિયો તાવ ṭāḍhiyo tāv, મલેરિયા maleriyā
malaria in Odia: ମ୍ଯ଼ାଲେରିଆ
malaria in Sinhala: මැලේරියාව mælēriyāwa
malaria in Nepali: औलो aulo
malaria in Tagalog: pangiki, malarya
malaria in Arabic: مَلَارِيَا malāriyā
malaria in Malay: malaria
malaria in Indonesian: malaria
malaria in Persian: مالاریا mâlâryâ
malaria in Thai: ไข้มาลาเรีย kâi maa-laa-ria, ไข้จับสั่น, ไข้ป่า kâi-bpàa, ไข้ป้าง
malaria in Vietnamese: bệnh sốt rét
malaria in Myanmar: ငှက်ဖျား hngakhpya:

Examples of malaria in a sentence

I went to the doctor to get a shot for malaria.
I went on holiday and got malaria.
Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.

All 35 example sentences with malaria

Synonyms of malaria

Forms of malaria

plural	malarias

Origin of malaria

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”).

Words formed from malaria

Phrases with malaria

malaria mosquitos

Words that rhyme with malaria

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Questions about malaria

What does malaria mean?: Malaria means a disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
What is malaria in Hindi?: Malaria in Hindi is मलेरिया (maleriyā), सविराम ज्वर (savirām jvar). See Malaria meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is malaria?: Malaria is a noun.
How do you pronounce malaria?: Malaria is pronounced /məˈlɛəɹi.ə/.
What is the plural of malaria?: The plural of malaria is malarias.

Words near malaria in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: malaria (page history and authors); malaria (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మలవేకి (Telugu) (page history and authors); malaria (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malaria (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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