malaria
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Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).
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malaria (countable and uncountable, plural malarias)
- A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
- (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.
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malaria c (singular definite malariaen, not used in plural form)
Dutch edit
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Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria
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malaria f (uncountable)
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- → Caribbean Hindustani: maláriyá
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian malaria.
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malaria
Declension edit
Inflection of malaria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | malaria | malariat | ||
genitive | malarian | malarioiden malarioitten | ||
partitive | malariaa | malarioita | ||
illative | malariaan | malarioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | malaria | malariat | ||
accusative | nom. | malaria | malariat | |
gen. | malarian | |||
genitive | malarian | malarioiden malarioitten malariainrare | ||
partitive | malariaa | malarioita | ||
inessive | malariassa | malarioissa | ||
elative | malariasta | malarioista | ||
illative | malariaan | malarioihin | ||
adessive | malarialla | malarioilla | ||
ablative | malarialta | malarioilta | ||
allative | malarialle | malarioille | ||
essive | malariana | malarioina | ||
translative | malariaksi | malarioiksi | ||
abessive | malariatta | malarioitta | ||
instructive | — | malarioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “malaria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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malaria f (plural malarias)
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- “malaria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch malaria, from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).
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malaria (first-person possessive malariaku, second-person possessive malariamu, third-person possessive malarianya)
- (medicine) malaria, a disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
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- “malaria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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malaria (uncountable)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From mal- (“bad”) + aria (“air”).
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malaria f (plural malarie)
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [mäˈɫ̪äriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [mäˈläːriä]
Noun edit
malaria f (genitive malariae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | malaria | malariae |
Genitive | malariae | malariārum |
Dative | malariae | malariīs |
Accusative | malariam | malariās |
Ablative | malariā | malariīs |
Vocative | malaria | malariae |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)
References edit
- “malaria” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
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malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)
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- “malaria” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
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Borrowed from Italian malaria.
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malaria f
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malaria f (plural malarias)
Further reading edit
- “malaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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malaria (n class, plural malaria)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).
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malaria c (uncountable)
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Declension of malaria | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | malaria | malarian | — | — |
Genitive | malarias | malarians | — | — |
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malaria