лама

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Chechen

Etymology

From Proto-Nakh *lamo.

Pronunciation

Adverb

лама (lama)

  1. day after tomorrow

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic لاما
Cyrillic лама
Latin lama

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian ла́ма (láma), from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

лама (lama)

  1. llama, Lama glama

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian ла́ма (láma), from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Noun

лама (lama)

  1. (Buddhism) lama
Declension

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

Noun

лама (lamaf (diminutive ламиче, augmentative ламиште)

  1. llama

Declension

Russian

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Etymology 1

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

ла́ма (lámaf anim (genitive ла́мы, nominative plural ла́мы, genitive plural лам)

  1. llama (South American mammal of the camel family, Llama glama)
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Descendants
  • Kazakh: лама (lama)

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

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Noun

ла́ма (lámam anim (genitive ла́мы, nominative plural ла́мы, genitive plural лам)

  1. (Buddhism) lama
    • 1875, Николай Лесков, “Глава пятая”, in На краю света; English translation from Alfred Edward Chamot, transl., On the Edge of the World, 1923:
      В э́то са́мое вре́мя я, как наро́чно, получи́л из Петербу́рга извеще́ние, что, по та́мошнему благоусмотре́нию, у нас в Сиби́ри увели́чивается число́ будди́йских ка́пищ и удва́иваются шта́ты лам.
      V éto sámoje vrémja ja, kak naróšno, polučíl iz Peterbúrga izveščénije, što, po támošnemu blagousmotréniju, u nas v Sibíri uvelíčivajetsja čisló buddíjskix kápišč i udváivajutsja štáty lam.
      At that very time, as if on purpose, I received a notification from ​Petersburg that authority had graciously been given to increase greatly the number of Buddhist temples, and that the lists of lamas permitted in Siberia had been doubled.
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Etymology 3

From Sumerian 𒀭𒆗 (dlammař ).

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Noun

ла́ма (lámaf anim (genitive ла́мы, nominative plural ла́мы, genitive plural лам)

  1. (mythology) lama, Sumerian beneficent protective female deity
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