# llamar
## Ladino
### Verb

llamar
* (Haketia) Alternative form of yamar
** 1983, Elena Romero, Repertorio de noticias sobre el mundo teatral de los sefardíes orientales‎, Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, →ISBN, page 337:Por_que el público se haga una idea de lo que en Viena y en Polonia llamaban teatro ĵidió, vo expośar aquí unos cuantos fatos.Because the public may pretend to an idea of what they were calling Jewish theatre in Vienna and Poland, I am going to expose some facts here.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish lamar, from Latin clāmāre (“cry out”), whence also the borrowed Spanish doublet clamar. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Cognate with English claim and clamor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʝaˈmaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈmaɾ]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝaˈmaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈmaɾ]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ʎaˈmaɾ/ [ʎaˈmaɾ]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃaˈmaɾ/ [ʃaˈmaɾ]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒaˈmaɾ/ [ʒaˈmaɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: lla‧mar

### Verb

llamar (first-person singular present llamo, first-person singular preterite llamé, past participle llamado)
* to summon, to call
    Te estuve llamando a voces.I was summoning you by voice.
    Me llamó con la mano para que me acercase.[He] summoned me with [his] hand in order to bring me near.
** to call (on the telephone)
    Hyponym: rellamar
    Te llaman desde París.They are calling you from Paris.
    Que me llamen a las siete.May they call me at seven o’clock.
    Ha llamado a Maribel.[He] has called Maribel.
** to knock (on a door)
    Entren sin llamar.Enter without knocking.
** to ring (a doorbell)
    ¿Quién llama?Who is ringing [the doorbell]?
* to refer to
    ¿Cómo van a llamar al niño?How are they going to refer to the child?
    Eso yo lo llamo un auténtico robo.I refer to that as an authentic robbery.
    La llamó de todo.[He] referred to her about everything.
* to appeal; to attract
    El ejército llama a muchos jóvenes.The army appeals to many youths.
    El chocolate no me llama demasiado.Chocolate does not appeal to me too much.
    llamar la atenciónto attract attention
* (pronominal) to be called
    ¿Cómo te llamas? (informal) ― What is your name? (literally, “How are [you] called?”)
    ¿Cómo se llama usted? (formal) ― What is your name? (literally, “How are [you] called?”)
    Mi primo se llama Benjamín.My cousin’s name is Benjamin.(literally, “My cousin is called Benjamin.”)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* como se llame, como-se-llame (“what's-his-name, what's-his-face, what's-her-name, what's-her-face”)
* llamar las cosas por su nombre

#### Related terms

* clamar
* clamor
* dame pan y llámame tonto
* exclamar
* llamada
* llamador
* llamamiento
* llamar a quintas
* llamar al pan, pan, y al vino, vino
* llamar la atención
* llamarse
* llamativo

#### See also

* apellidar
* apodar
* llama

### Further reading

* “llamar”, 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