llama

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑmə/, or (rare, foreign) IPA^(key): /ˈjɑmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: lama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Two llamas going for a swim

llama (plural llamas)

1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

• A male llama is often called a macho, and a female llama is often called an hembra.

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

• drama llama
• lamoid

• → Chinese: 駱馬／骆马 (luòmǎ) (semantic loan)
• → Irish: láma
• → Japanese: ラマ (rama)
• → Korean: 라마 (rama)
• → Welsh: lama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

llama (plural llamas)

1. Archaic form of lama.
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

     He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such periods as these without an inward quaking.

• Allam, Malla

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /ʎama/ [ʎa.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: lla‧ma

llama anim

1. llama

• "llama" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʎa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈʎa.ma]

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

llama m or f by sense (plural llames)

1. llama

Borrowed from French lame.

llama f (plural llames)

1. lamé

• “llama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

llama

1. llama.

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /ja.ma/

llama m (plural llamas)

1. (rare) Alternative form of lama

llama

1. llama (Lama glama, a camelid used as a beast of burden in the Andes)

• → Spanish: llama (see there for further descendants)

• allpaqa
• wanaku
• wik'uña

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: lla‧ma

Inherited from Latin flamma, itself from Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare flagrō (“to blaze”) from the same root.

llama f (plural llamas)

1. flame

   Synonym: flama

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

llama f (plural llamas)

1. llama (camelid mammal)

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

• → Basque: llama
• → Catalan: llama
• → English: llama
  • → Chinese: 駱馬／骆马 (luòmǎ) (semantic loan)
  • → Irish: láma
  • → Japanese: ラマ (rama)
  • → Korean: 라마 (rama)
  • → Welsh: lama
• → Japanese: リャマ (ryama), ジャマ (jama)
• → French: llama
• → Portuguese: lhama, lama
• → Tagalog: liyama

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

llama

1. inflection of llamar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “llama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014