See also: llamá

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

 
Two llamas going for a swim

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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.
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  • 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

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From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

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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.

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Asturian

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Etymology 1

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

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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)
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Etymology 2

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

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llama f (plural llames)

  1. flame
    Synonyms: llapa, llapada, llaparada

Basque

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Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

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  • IPA(key): /ʎama/ [ʎa.ma]
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  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Hyphenation: lla‧ma

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llama anim

  1. llama

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

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llama m or f by sense (plural llames)

  1. llama

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Borrowed from French lame.

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llama f (plural llames)

  1. lamé

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Classical Quechua

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llama

  1. llama

French

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Etymology

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From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

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llama m (plural llamas)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of lama

Quechua

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llama

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

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  • Spanish: llama (see there for further descendants)

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /abandoˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞ãn̪.d̪oˈnaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ

Etymology 1

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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.

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llama f (plural llamas)

  1. flame
    Synonym: flama
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Quechua llama.

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llama f (plural llamas)

  1. llama (camelid mammal)
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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llama

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

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