Swedish noun

en malaria

Malaria/ma¹lɑːrɪa/

Meaning

Malaria

Forms

Forms of malaria
Singular, indefiniteen malaria
Singular, definitemalarian

malaria is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor malaria, den stora malarian. Check another noun

Practise malaria

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Is it en malaria or ett malaria?

Questions

What does malaria mean in English?

malaria means “Malaria”.

Is it en malaria or ett malaria?

It is en malaria, and “the Malaria” is malarian.

Origin

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).

Nearby common words

malaria is number 9,630 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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