Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine
← Vocabulary

malawi

UK/məˈlɑːwi/US/məˈlɑwi/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,096 of 15,258mostly written

Malawi is the warm heart of Africa, wrapped around a great lake. Travel to Malawi.

The lake takes up a fifth of the country and holds more species of fish than any other in the world. Malawi is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa and one of the poorest.

Original: Unknown author Vector: Achim1999 · Public domain

Definitions of malawi

  1. 1nounmalawiThe warm heart of Africa, wrapped around a great lake.B2+

    “Most of the fish in that tank came originally from Malawi.”

malawi is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. ny

    lawi — flames

  2. English

    Malawi

  3. English, today

    malawi

Malawi Said to be from ny lawi (“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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Countries & Flags

Practise this word