malaria
French, noun/ma.la.ʁja/
malaria is spelled M-A-L-A-R-I-A (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malaria is a French feminine noun meaning “malaria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Air vicié, pestilence provenant des marécages, qu’on croyait être cause des accès de fièvre dont souffraient…”.
What does malaria mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Air vicié, pestilence provenant des marécages, qu’on croyait être cause des accès de fièvre dont souffraient périodiquement les habitants de certaines régions. 2. Paludisme transmis par l’anophèle, qui se manifeste par des accès de fièvre survenant à des intervalles réguliers.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of malaria
- malarias plural
- mal’aria
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malaria?
- /ma.la.ʁja/
- \ma.la.ʁja\
- [ma.la.ʁja]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malaria
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malaria in French?
malaria appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).