lama

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: llama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama (plural lamas)

1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

• lamaism, lamaistic
• lamasery
• Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, Tashi Lama

• lama on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

lama (plural lamas)

1. Alternative form of llama.

Borrowed from Spanish lama (“lamé”).

lama (plural lamas)

1. (obsolete) lamé (fabric with silver or gold threads woven in)
   • 1816, William Hone, Hone’s authentic account of the Royal Marriage, page 38:

     The Wedding Dress, composed of a most magnificent silver lama, on net, over a rich silver tissue slip, with a superb border of silver lama embroidery at the bottom, forming shells and bouquets; above the border a most elegant falling, tastefully designed, in festoons of rich silver lama, and finished with a very brilliant roleau of lama.

• amla, ALMA, alma, Alam, Amal, laam, Alma, mala

• IPA^(key): /lama/
• Rhymes: -ama, -a
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

From Latin flamma.

lama inan

1. (Northern) flame

   Synonym: sugar

Borrowed from Spanish lama, ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama anim

1. lama

• “lama”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia
• “lama”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

lama

1. plate

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 174

• IPA^(key): /lama/
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama

1. old (age of non-living things)

   buku lama

   old book

• (antonym(s) of “age”): baru (“new”) (non-living things)

• (age): tua (“old”) (living things)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/

Borrowed from French lame. Cognates include Italian lama.

lama f (plural lame)

1. blade

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m

1. (Tibetan Buddhism) lama (religious person)

• Dalaï Lama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama f (plural lame)

1. llama (Lama glama)

• “lama” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama f

1. llama

• láma

lama m anim

1. (Buddhism) lama

• “lama”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lama”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key):

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama (definite singular lamaen, or (2 definition) lamaet, indefinite plural lamaer, definite plural lamaerne)

1. llama, Lama glama
2. textile fabric made from wool of lamas

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama c (singular definite lamaen, plural indefinite lamaer)

1. Buddhist lama

• lamaisme
• lamaistisk

• “lama” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.maː/

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• Hyphenation: la‧ma

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (plural lama's, diminutive lamaatje n)

1. llama, Lama glama

   Synonym: schaapkameel

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

lama m (plural lama's, diminutive lamaatje n)

1. Buddhist lama

• dalai lama
• lamaïsme

lama

1. (informal, Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of laat maar (“never mind”)

• lm

• maal

From English lame and German lahm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama (accusative singular laman, plural lamaj, accusative plural lamajn)

1. lame (unable to walk properly)

• lame
• lameco
• lami

• kripla

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama f (genitive singular lamu, plural lamur)

1. llama

From Proto-Finnic *lama (compare Estonian lamama (“to lie down”), Ludian lama, Votic lama), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame, withered; defective”). Alternatively related to Moksha лама (lama) and Erzya ламо (lamo, “many”), although the semantic shift is problematic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑmɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧ma

lama

1. paralysis, depression (state of being inable to act)

   Hallituksen päätöksenteko on lamassa.

   Government's decisionmaking is in a paralysis.

2. (economics) depression

   Coordinate term: taantuma (“recession, downturn”)

   Talous on lamassa.

   The economy is in a depression.

• (state of being inable to act): depressio, lannistuneisuus, lamaannus, masennus

• “1. lama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ(ː)mɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧ma

lama

1. (Buddhism) lama

• “2. lama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• Alma

• IPA^(key): /la.ma/

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (plural lamas)

1. llama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (plural lamas)

1. (Buddhism) lama

Inflected forms.

lama

1. third-person singular past historic of lamer

• “lama”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese lama (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from Latin lāma (“marshy place, bog”), or from Paleo-Hispanic but having the same ultimate origin.

• IPA^(key):

lama f (plural lamas)

1. mud

   Onde moitos cuspen, lama fan.

   Where many people spit, they make mud.

   (proverb)

   Synonyms: bullo, lodo, trollo

2. wet meadow; marsh; slough

   Synonyms: bulleiro, lameiro, lamela

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lama”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lama”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Proto-Polynesian *rama, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaR (compare Maori rama (“torch”), Malay damar (“resin, torch”)).

lama

1. torch
2. light

• lamalama
• malama

• lama in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Proto-Austronesian *lama (“old, former”).

• IPA^(key): /lamaʔ/
• Hyphenation: la‧ma
• Rhymes: -maʔ

lama

1. long (duration of time)

   Lama amai Bunyau nyalin baju!

   It's taking so long for Bunyau to put on his clothes!

2. old (inanimate object)

   Utai lama

   Old stuff

3. old (something from the distant past)

   Kesultanan Sarawak lama

   The old Sarawak Sultanate

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːma/
• Rhymes: -aːma

lama (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lamaði, supine lamað)

1. to lame, cripple

lama (indeclinable)

1. lame

From Malay lama, from Proto-Austronesian *lama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

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• Rhymes: -ma, -a

lama (comparative lebih lama, superlative paling lama)

1. long: having great duration; seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring

   Synonym: panjang

2. duration

   Synonym: durasi

3. ancient

   Synonym: kuno

4. old

   Synonyms: butut, tua

• “lama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: là‧ma

Borrowed from French lame, from Latin lāmina. Doublet of lamina.

lama f (plural lame)

1. blade (of a razor or sword)
2. (figurative) swordsman/swordswoman

• lametta

• spada
• spadaccino

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (invariable)

1. lama (religious person)

• lamasseria

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (invariable)

1. llama

From Latin lāma.

lama f (plural lame)

1. bog, fen

• alma

From Old Javanese lama.

lama

1. old

Borrowed from Polish lama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

lama f

1. llama (Lama glama)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “lama”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

• IPA^(key):

lama

1. tongue

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “lama”, in Lamboya word list‎, Leiden: LexiRumah

Uncertain. Possibly cognate to Lithuanian lomà (“hollow, valley”), Latvian lãma (“hollow, pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂-mo-. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (source of Latin lacus) via earlier *lacma or *lacsma.

lāma f (genitive lāmae); first declension

1. slough, bog, fen
   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Epistulae 1.13.10:

     vīribus ūtēris per clīvōs, flūmina, lāmās.

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   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 568:

     silvārum saltūs latebrās lāmāsque lutōsās

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• Asturian: llama
• Galician: lama
• Italian: lama
• Portuguese: lama
• Spanish: lama

• “lama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lama", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lama”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

lama f (4th declension)

1. llama

lama m (4th declension)

1. lama

From Proto-Austronesian *lama (“old, former”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /lamə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /lama/
• Rhymes: -amə, -mə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

lama (Jawi spelling لاما)

1. long (duration of time)

   Lamanya Agus tukar baju!

   It's taking so long for Agus to change his clothes!

2. old (inanimate object)

   Barang lama

   Old stuff

3. old (something from the distant past)

   Kesultanan Melayu Melaka lama

   The old Malacca Sultanate

• panjang (“long in length”)
• tua (“old in age”)

lama (Jawi spelling لاما, plural lama-lama)

1. lama

• “lama” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lama₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

lama

1. field
2. yard
3. lawn
4. playground

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

C.f. Classical Nahuatl ilama (“old woman”).

lama

1. female

• lamahchichi
• lamahtotoli
• lamatzin

• Brockway, Earl, Hershey de Brockway, Trudy, Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018) Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42)‎ (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 72

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlama/

lama

1. inflection of lapmat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

From Spanish llama and Quechua llama.

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer, definite plural lamaene)

1. a llama (South American mammal)

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer, definite plural lamaene)

1. a lama (Buddhist monk or spiritual leader)

• “lama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lama_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “lama_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Spanish llama and Quechua llama.

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer or lamaar, definite plural lamaene or lamaane)

1. a llama (South American mammal)

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer or lamaar, definite plural lamaene or lamaane)

1. a lama (Buddhist monk or spiritual leader)

• “lama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.mɑ/

lama

1. lame
2. (substantive) a lame person
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 2:10-11

     Hē cwæð tō þām laman, þē iċ seċġe, arīs, nim ðīn bed, and gā tō þīnum hūse.

     He said to the lame man, "I say to you, arise, take your bed, and go to your house."

• Middle English: lame
  • Geordie English: lyem
  • Scots: lame
  • English: lame

lama

1. old

Oromo cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : lama     Ordinal : lammaffaa

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *ɬa(a)ma. Compare Afar nammay, Hadiyya lamo, Rendille lama and Somali laba, Kambaata lámo.

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lama

1. two

• laman (alternative spelling)

From Spanish la mar and Portuguese mar and Portuguese lama ("mire") and Kabuverdianu már.

Compare Nahuatl láma̱r.

lama

1. sea
2. ocean
3. beach

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

Borrowed from German Lama.

lama f

1. llama (Lama glama)

• → Kashubian: lama

Internationalism; compare English lama, French lama, German Lama, ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m pers

1. (Buddhism) lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

Borrowed from French lamé.

lama f

1. lamé (fabric)

• lama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

From Old Galician-Portuguese lama, from Latin lāma (“swamp”).

lama f (plural lamas)

1. mud (soil and water)

   Synonyms: barro, lodo

• lama vermelha
• enlamear
• arrastar pela lama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma, “lama”).

lama m (plural lamas)

1. lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

lama m or f (plural lamas)

1. Portugal form of lhama

• lama on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

From French lama.

lama m (uncountable)

1. lama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key):

lama f (relational adjective lamí)

1. (zoology) llama

• “lama”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /làːma/

láma f

1. llama (South Americal mammal of the camel family, Llama glama)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	láma
gen. sing.	láme
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	láma	lámi	láme
genitive (rodȋlnik)	láme	lám	lám
dative (dajȃlnik)	lámi	lámama	lámam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	lámo	lámi	láme
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	lámi	lámah	lámah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	lámo	lámama	lámami

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

• IPA^(key): /làːma/

láma m anim

1. lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., a-stem
nom. sing.	láma
gen. sing.	láme
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	láma	lámi	láme
genitive (rodȋlnik)	láme	lám	lám
dative (dajȃlnik)	lámi	lámama	lámam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	lámo	lámi	láme
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	lámi	lámah	lámah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	lámo	lámama	lámami

• “lama”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/

• Audio (Costa Rica):

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

From Latin lama.

lama f (plural lamas)

1. slime, mud
2. fine sand
3. (Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico) moss

• baba f
• cieno m

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (plural lamas)

1. (Buddhism) lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

lama

1. inflection of lamer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “lama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.mɑ/

• Audio (Kenya):

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lama class IX (plural lama class X)

1. llama (camelid animal)

• (Camelids) Camelidae: ngamia na jamaa; ngamia (“camel”) or jamali, lama (“llama”), - (“guanaco”), alpaka (“alpaca”), - (“vicuña”) ^{(Category: sw:Camelids)} 

lama

1. inflection of lam:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

lama c

1. lama; a monk
2. (animal) llama

• lama in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• Alma

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama (definite accusative lamayı, plural lamalar)

1. llama, Lama glama

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama (definite accusative lamayı, plural lamalar)

1. lama, a master of Tibetan Buddhism

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈlama/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈlaːma/, /ˈlama/

From English llama, from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (plural lamaod, not mutable)

1. llama

From English lama from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (plural lamaod, not mutable)

1. lama

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “lama”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

• IPA^(key):

lama

1. lama

   Synonym: alak

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN