Chewa Origin Place Names

This is a list of place names in which the origin is Chewa. Chewa is a language spoken in Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.
type
usage
origin
Malaui (Country) Spanish
Spanish form of Malawi.
Malāvija (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of Malawi.
Malavis (Country) Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Malawi.
Malawi (Country) Chewa, English, Swahili, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkmen, Arabic
Possibly from Chewa malawi meaning "flame, fire". This is the name of a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It was renamed from Nyasaland when the country gained independence from Britain in 1964. Hastings Banda, the country's first president and the man who chose the name, claimed to have seen it on an old map in the form Maravi, referring to a lake.
Mallawi (Country) Korean
Korean form of Malawi.
Maraui (Country) Japanese
Japanese form of Malawi.