malaria
noun /məˈleəriə/
/məˈleriə/
[uncountable]- a serious disease that causes a high temperature and shivering (= shaking of the body) caused by the bite of some types of mosquito
- An increasing number of malaria cases are reported each year.
- Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- severe
- have
- suffer from
- catch
- …
- case
- mosquito
- parasite
- …
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Italian, from mal'aria, contracted form of mala aria ‘bad air’. The term originally denoted the unhealthy atmosphere caused by marshes, to which the disease was formerly attributed.