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Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Two llamas going for a swim

llama (plural llamas)

  2. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

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.

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

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)

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

llama f (plural llames)

  1. flame
    Synonyms: llapa, llapada, llaparada

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

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

llama anim

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

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

llama m or f by sense (plural llames)

  1. llama

Borrowed from French lame.

llama f (plural llames)

  1. lamé

llama

  1. llama

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

llama m (plural llamas)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of lama

llama

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

possessive forms of llama

ñuqap - first-person singular

qampa - second-person singular

paypa - third-person singular

ñuqanchikpa - first-person inclusive plural

ñuqaykup - first-person exclusive plural

qamkunap - second-person plural

paykunap - third-person plural

  • → Spanish: llama (see there for further descendants)
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈʝama/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.ma]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈʎama/ [ˈʎa.ma]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃama/ [ˈʃa.ma]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒama/ [ˈʒa.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Syllabification: lla‧ma

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.

llama f (plural llamas)

  1. flame
    Synonym: flama

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

llama f (plural llamas)

  1. llama (camelid mammal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

llama

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