Malawi

English

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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.

Proper noun

Malawi

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

Translations

Republic of Malawi

• Arabic: ملاوي (ar) (malaawiy) m

  Egyptian Arabic: مالاوى (malaawiy) m

• Armenian: Մալավի (hy) (Malavi) 
• Belarusian: Малаві (be) (Malávi) f 
• Breton: Malawi (br)
• Bulgarian: Малави (bg) (Malávi) 
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Malawi (cs) n
• Danish: Malawi (da)
• Dutch: Malawi (nl)
• Esperanto: Malavio (eo)
• Finnish: Malawi (fi)
• French: Malawi (fr) m
• German: Malawi (de)
• Greek: Μαλάουι (el) (Maláoui) n 
• Hungarian: Malawi (hu)
• Interlingua: Malawi (ia)
• Irish: An Mhaláiv (ga) f, Poblacht na Maláive (ga) f
• Italian: Malawi (it) m
• Japanese: マラウイ (ja) (Maraui)
• Kalenjin: Malawi

• Kamba: Malawi
• Kikuyu: Malawi
• Korean: 말라위 (ko) (Mallawi)
• Luhya: Malawi
• Luo: Malawi
• Macedonian: Малави (mk) (Malávi) n
• Meru: Malawi
• Navajo: Malááwii
• Norwegian: Malawi (no)
• Polish: Malawi (pl)
• Portuguese: Malávi (pt)
• Romanian: Malawi (ro)
• Russian: Малави (ru) (Malávi) f  (indeclinable)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Малави (sh) m

  Roman: Malavi (sh) m

• Spanish: Malaui (es)
• Swahili: Malawi (sw)
• Swedish: Malawi (sv)
• Turkish: Malavi (tr)
• Ukrainian: Малаві (uk) (Malávi) f 

See also

• Countries of the world
• Malawi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

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Czech

Proper noun

Malawi n

1. Malawi

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Declension

Declension of Malawi (type risti) singular plural nominative Malawi – genitive Malawin – partitive Malawia – accusative Malawi Malawin – 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

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Malawi n

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• Malawier
• Malawierin
• malawisch

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• malawiano

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi

Related terms

• malawier
• malawisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maˈlavi/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Malawi n

1. Malawi

Derived terms

• Malawijczyk m, Malawijka f
• adjective: malawijski

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Spanish

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Alternative spelling of Malaui.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Malawi

1. Malawi