llama

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Two llamas going for a swim

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

Asturian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin lama. Cognate with Spanish lama, Portuguese lama, Italian lama and Galician lama.

Noun

llama f (plural llames)

  1. (uncountable) quagmire, mud, slime
    Synonyms: llamuerga, folla
  2. wet land, field that's always wet and doesn't need to be watered
  3. moss (that grows near still water)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin flamma. Cognate with Spanish llama, Sicilian ciamma.

Noun

llama f (plural llames)

  1. flame
    Synonyms: llapa, llapada, llaparada

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin lamina. Doublet of llámina.

Alternative forms

Noun

llama f (plural llames)

  1. slab, flagstone
    Synonyms: llábana, llosa

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

Noun

llama anim

  1. llama

Declension

Declension of llama (animate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive llama llama llamak
ergative llamak llamak llamek
dative llamari llamari llamei
genitive llamaren llamaren llamen
comitative llamarekin llamarekin llamekin
causative llamarengatik llamarengatik llamengatik
benefactive llamarentzat llamarentzat llamentzat
instrumental llamaz llamaz llamez
inessive llamarengan llamarengan llamengan
locative
allative llamarengana llamarengana llamengana
terminative llamarenganaino llamarenganaino llamenganaino
directive llamarenganantz llamarenganantz llamenganantz
destinative llamarenganako llamarenganako llamenganako
ablative llamarengandik llamarengandik llamengandik
partitive llamarik
prolative llamatzat

Further reading

  • llama”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Classical Quechua

Noun

llama

  1. llama

French

Etymology

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

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

Declension of llama
singular plural
nominative llama llamakuna
accusative llamata llamakunata
dative llamaman llamakunaman
genitive llamap llamakunap
locative llamapi llamakunapi
terminative llamakama llamakunakama
ablative llamamanta llamakunamanta
instrumental llamawan llamakunawan
comitative llamantin llamakunantin
abessive llamannaq llamakunannaq
comparative llamahina llamakunahina
causative llamarayku llamakunarayku
benefactive llamapaq llamakunapaq
associative llamapura llamakunapura
distributive llamanka llamakunanka
exclusive llamalla llamakunalla
Possessive forms of llama
ñuqap - first-person singular
ñuqap (my) singular plural
nominative llamay llamaykuna
accusative llamayta llamaykunata
dative llamayman llamaykunaman
genitive llamaypa llamaykunap
locative llamaypi llamaykunapi
terminative llamaykama llamaykunakama
ablative llamaymanta llamaykunamanta
instrumental llamaywan llamaykunawan
comitative llamaynintin llamaykunantin
abessive llamayninnaq llamaykunannaq
comparative llamayhina llamaykunahina
causative llamayrayku llamaykunarayku
benefactive llamaypaq llamaykunapaq
associative llamaypura llamaykunapura
distributive llamayninka llamaykunanka
exclusive llamaylla llamaykunalla
paypa - third-person singular
paypa (his/her/its) singular plural
nominative llaman llamankuna
accusative llamanta llamankunata
dative llamanman llamankunaman
genitive llamanpa llamankunap
locative llamanpi llamankunapi
terminative llamankama llamankunakama
ablative llamanmanta llamankunamanta
instrumental llamanwan llamankunawan
comitative llamanintin llamankunantin
abessive llamanninnaq llamankunannaq
comparative llamanhina llamankunahina
causative llamanrayku llamankunarayku
benefactive llamanpaq llamankunapaq
associative llamanpura llamankunapura
distributive llamaninka llamankunanka
exclusive llamanlla llamankunalla

Descendants

  • Spanish: llama (see there for further descendants)

See also

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈʝama/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈʎama/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃama/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒama/

  • 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
Descendants

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