Malawi

See also: Maláwi and Malaŵi

Contents

English

Alternative forms

• Malaŵi (rare, scholarly)

Etymology

Said to be from Chichewa malawi (“flames”), after the appearance of the sunrise over Lake Malawi; also possibly from Maravi, the name of an early Malawi tribe, or from an old name for a lake. Chosen by Hastings Banda in 1964.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈlɑːwi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈlɑːwi/, /mɑːˈlɑːwi/

Proper noun

Malawi

2. Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Malawi.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Translations

Republic of Malawi

• Afrikaans: Malawi (af)
• Amharic: ማላዊ (malawi)
• Arabic: مَالَاوِي‎ f (mālāwī), مَلَاوِي‎ f (malāwī)

  Egyptian Arabic: مالاوى‎ m or f (malāwī)

• Armenian: Մալավի (Malavi)
• Belarusian: Мала́ві f (Malávi)
• Bengali: মালাউই (malaui)
• Breton: Malawi
• Bulgarian: Мала́ви m (Malávi)
• Burmese: မာလဝီ (mala.wi)
• Catalan: Malawi (ca)
• Chichewa: Malawi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬拉維 (zh), 马拉维 (zh) (Mǎlāwéi)

• Czech: Malawi (cs) n
• Danish: Malawi
• Dutch: Malawi (nl)
• Esperanto: Malavio (eo)
• Estonian: Malawi (et)
• Finnish: Malawi (fi)
• French: Malawi (fr) m
• Georgian: მალავი (malavi)
• German: Malawi (de)
• Greek: Μαλάουι (el) n (Maláoui)
• Hausa: Malawi
• Hindi: मलावी (hi) (malāvī)
• Hungarian: Malawi (hu)
• Interlingua: Malawi
• Irish: An Mhaláiv f, Poblacht na Maláive f
• Italian: Malawi (it) m
• Japanese: マラウイ (ja) (Maraui)
• Kalenjin: Malawi
• Kamba: Malawi
• Kazakh: Малави (Malavï)
• Khmer: ម៉ាឡាវី (km) (maalaavii)
• Kikuyu: Malawi
• Korean: 말라위 (Mallawi)

• Kyrgyz: Малави (Malavi)
• Lao: ມາລາວີ (mā lā wī)
• Latvian: Malāvija f
• Luhya: Malawi
• Luo: Malawi
• Macedonian: Мала́ви n (Malávi)
• Malagasy: Malawi
• Maori: Marāwi
• Meru: Malawi
• Mongolian: Малави (Malavi)
• Navajo: Malááwii
• Norman: Malawi m
• Norwegian: Malawi (no)
• Persian: مالاوی‎ (mâlâvi)
• Polish: Malawi (pl)
• Portuguese: Malawi (pt) m, Malavi (pt) m, Malaui (pt) m
• Romanian: Malawi (ro)
• Russian: Мала́ви (ru) f (Malávi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Малави m

  Roman: Malavi (sh) m

• Slovak: Malawi n
• Slovene: Malavi (sl) m
• Spanish: Malaui (es)
• Swahili: Malawi (sw)
• Swedish: Malawi (sv)
• Tagalog: Malawi (tl)
• Tajik: Малави (Malavi)
• Thai: มาลาวี (th) (maa-laa-wii)
• Tigrinya: ማላዊ (malawi)
• Tumbuka: Malaŵi
• Turkish: Malavi (tr)
• Ukrainian: Мала́ві (uk) f (Malávi)
• Vietnamese: Ma-la-uy
• Yoruba: Malawi
• Zulu: IMalawi

See also

• Countries of the world

Further reading

• Malawi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Malwai, walima

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məˈlaj/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /maˈlaj/

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

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Chichewa

Etymology

Chosen by Hastings Banda in 1964, ostensibly from malaŵí (“flames”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɽá.w⁽ᵝ⁾i/

Proper noun

Maláŵi

1. Malawi

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Czech

Proper noun

Malawi n

1. Malawi

Related terms

• malawský
• malawiský
• Malawijec

Further reading

• Malawi in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• malawier
• malawisk

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlɑʋi/, [ˈmɑlɑʋi]

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Declension

Inflection of Malawi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Malawi	—
genitive		Malawin	—
partitive		Malawia	—
illative		Malawiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Malawi	—
accusative	nom.	Malawi	—
	gen.	Malawin
genitive		Malawin	—
partitive		Malawia	—
inessive		Malawissa	—
elative		Malawista	—
illative		Malawiin	—
adessive		Malawilla	—
ablative		Malawilta	—
allative		Malawille	—
essive		Malawina	—
translative		Malawiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Malawitta	—
comitative		—	—

Derived terms

• malawilainen

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Malawi n (genitive Malawis)

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• Malawier
• Malawierin
• malawisch

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Italian

Proper noun

Malawi m

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• malawiano

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Malagasy

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Related terms

• malawier
• malawisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Related terms

• malawiar
• malawisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈla.vʲi/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Malawi n

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• (nouns) Malawijczyk m, Malawijka f
• (adjective) malawijski

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Malaui
• Malavi
• Maláui (uncommon)
• Malávi (uncommon)
• Maláwi (rare)

Proper noun

Malawi m

1. Malawi (a country in southeastern Africa)
2. Malawi (a river in southeastern Africa)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Malawi ?

1. Alternative spelling of Malaui

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Swahili

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi (country in Southern Africa)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Malawi n (genitive Malawis)

1. Malawi

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Malaui (“Malawi”).

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi