# llama
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈlɑː.mə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈlɑmə/, or (rare, foreign) IPA: /ˈjɑmə/
* Rhymes: -ɑːmə
* Homophone: lama

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

#### Noun

llama (plural llamas)
* A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

##### Usage notes

* A male llama is often called a macho, and a female llama is often called an hembra.

##### Coordinate terms

* (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña

##### Derived terms

* berserk llama syndrome
* drama llama
* lamoid

##### Descendants

* → Chinese: 駱馬 / 骆马 (luòmǎ) (semantic loan)
* → Irish: láma
* → Japanese: ラマ (rama)
* → Korean: 라마 (rama)
* → Welsh: lama

##### Translations
#### References

* llama on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Lama on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Lama (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

#### Noun

llama (plural llamas)
* 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.

### Anagrams

* Allam, Malla

## Asturian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

llama f (plural llames)
* (uncountable) quagmire, mud, slime
    Synonyms: llamuerga, folla
* wet land, field that's always wet and doesn't need to be watered
* moss (that grows near still water)

##### Related terms

* llamuerga

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

llama f (plural llames)
* flame
    Synonyms: llapa, llapada, llaparada

## Basque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʎama/ [ʎa.ma]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ama, -a
* Hyphenation: lla‧ma

### Noun

llama anim
* llama

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

#### Noun

llama m or f by sense (plural llames)
* llama

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French lame.

#### Noun

llama f (plural llames)
* lamé

### Further reading

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

## Classical Quechua
### Noun

llama
* llama

## French
### Etymology

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ja.ma/

### Noun

llama m (plural llamas)
* (rare) Alternative form of lama

## Quechua
### Noun

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

#### Descendants

* → Spanish: llama (see there for further descendants)

### See also

* allpaqa
* wanaku
* wik'uña

### Further reading

* Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2005) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua/Qheswa-español-qheswa simi taqe‎, Cuzco: Regional Government of Cuzco

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝama/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.ma]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈʝama/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.ma]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈʎama/ [ˈʎa.ma]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃama/ [ˈʃa.ma]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒama/ [ˈʒa.ma]
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: lla‧ma

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

llama f (plural llamas)
* flame
    Synonym: flama

##### Derived terms

* a la llama
* apagallamas
* en llamas
* lanzallamas
* llamarada
* llamear

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

#### Noun

llama f (plural llamas)
* llama (camelid mammal)

##### Coordinate terms

* (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña

##### Descendants

* → Basque: llama
* → Catalan: llama
* → English: llama
** → Chinese: 駱馬 / 骆马 (luòmǎ) (semantic loan)
** → Irish: láma
** → Japanese: ラマ (rama)
** → Korean: 라마 (rama)
** → Welsh: lama
* → Japanese: リャマ (ryama), ジャマ (jama)
* → French: llama
* → Portuguese: lhama, lama (Portugal)
* → Tagalog: liyama
* → Danish: lama

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

llama
* inflection of llamar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “llama”, 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