# flama
## Albanian
### Etymology

Uncertain.

### Proper noun

flama f
* (mythology) restless evil ghost that's responbile for people's mental decline.

### References

* ↑ Elsie, Robert (2001). A dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology and folk culture. NYU Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-85065-570-
* ↑ Elsie 2001, p. 90.

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin flamma.

### Noun

flama f
* flame

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin flamma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfla.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfla.ma]

### Noun

flama f (plural flames)
* flame

#### Derived terms

* ablamar
* aflamar
* flamada
* flamar
* flamejar

#### Related terms

* flamant
* inflamar

### Further reading

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

## Extremaduran
### Noun

flama f
* flame

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* fla̱ma (Bressan)
* flama (Dauphinois)

### Noun

flama (plural flames) (ORB, narrow)
* Alternative form of fllama (“flame”)

### References

* flama in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
* Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎, University of Paris, page 130

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fla.ma/
* Homophones: flamas, flamât

### Verb

flama
* third-person singular past historic of flamer

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin flamma. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French flame.

### Noun

flama f (oblique plural flamas, nominative singular flama, nominative plural flamas)
* flame (visible part of fire)

#### Descendants

* Occitan: flamba, flama

### See also

* foc

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “flamma”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 599

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin flamma, from Proto-Italic *flagmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfla.ma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: fla‧ma

### Noun

flama f
* (archaic) female lover
    Synonym: kochanka

#### Declension
### Further reading

* flama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* flama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin flamma. Doublet of chama.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈflɐ̃.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈflɐ̃.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈflɐ.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈflɐ.mɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈflɐ.mɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈfla.mɐ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
* Hyphenation: fla‧ma

### Noun

flama f (plural flamas)
* (poetic) flame (visible part of fire)
    Synonyms: chama, labareda
* (figuratively) liveliness, ardor

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈflama]

### Noun

flama f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of flamă

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Flamme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfla.ma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: fla‧ma

### Noun

flama f
* flame

### Further reading

* Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “flama”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 86

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flamma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflama/ [ˈfla.ma]
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: fla‧ma

### Noun

flama f (plural flamas)
* flame (visible part of fire)
    Synonym: llama

### Further reading

* “flama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فلامه (flama, filama), from one or more Romance languages, from Latin flamma. Compare French flamme, Occitan flamo, Friulian fláme, Italian fiamma.

### Noun

flama (definite accusative flamayı, plural flamalar)
* streamer, pennant

### References

* Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 289
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN