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malia

/məˈliː.ə/

malia noun: a passerine bird endemic to Sulawesi, of species Malia grata.

Noun

malia

  1. A passerine bird endemic to Sulawesi, of species Malia grata.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Malia

Malia

  1. A female given name from Hawaiian.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Malia

Malia

  1. A coastal town in Crete, Greece.

Origin of malia

Borrowed from Hawaiian Malia (“Mary”) and in some cases from Mālia (“calm”).

Borrowed from Greek Μάλια (Mália).

Questions about malia

What does malia mean?
Malia means a passerine bird endemic to Sulawesi, of species Malia grata.
What part of speech is malia?
Malia can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce malia?
Malia is pronounced /məˈliː.ə/.

Words near malia in the dictionary

  1. Malhotras
  2. malhygiene
  3. mali
  4. Mali Bukovec
  5. Mali Lošinj
  6. malia
  7. Maliah
  8. Maliakos Gulf
  9. Malian
  10. Maliangcog
  11. Malianness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malia (page history and authors); Malia (page history and authors). 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.

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