llama

English

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llama

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

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.

Usage notes

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

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• drama llama
• lamoid

Descendants

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

Translations

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Allam, Malla

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʎama/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: lla‧ma

Noun

llama anim

1. llama

Declension

Further reading

• "llama" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

llama m or f by sense (plural llames)

1. llama

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French lame.

Noun

llama f (plural llames)

1. lamé

Further reading

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

Classical Quechua

Noun

llama

1. llama.

French

Etymology

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja.ma/

Noun

llama m (plural llamas)

1. (rare) Alternative form of lama

Quechua

Noun

llama

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

Declension

Descendants

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

See also

• allpaqa
• wanaku
• wik'uña

Further reading

• The template Template:R:Diccionario AMLQ does not use the parameter(s):

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: lla‧ma

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

llama f (plural llamas)

1. flame

   Synonym: flama

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

Noun

llama f (plural llamas)

1. llama (camelid mammal)

Coordinate terms

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

Descendants

• → 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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

llama

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

Further reading

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