Other than the “not” part, yeah. “Mala” is bad, wrong, evil, wicked, ill, naughty, etc.

(Checked this to confirm before I posted, since it’s been several years since I’ve known Spanish well enough to speak it.)

Estonian is umbrohi which is kind of like "not grass" so pretty similar to Deutsch here

And I think that's beautiful.

Maleza is more like a thicket or lots of malas hierbas.

https://dle.rae.es/maleza?m=form

But now I see that in some countries is synonymous with mala hierba, I didn't know that.

Some countries in Latin America call it maleza and others do not