llama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑmə/, or (rare, foreign) IPA^(key): /ˈjɑmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: lama

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.

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

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

• lamoid

llama

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

• → Spanish: llama
  • → English: llama

• allpaqa
• wanaku
• wik'uña

• “llama” in Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2006) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua, 2nd edition, Cusco: Edmundo Pantigozo.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈʎama/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈɟ͡ʝama/

From Latin flamma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlē- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare Catalan flama, Italian fiamma, Portuguese chama, French flamme, German Flamme. Doublet of flama, which was borrowed.

llama f (plural llamas)

1. flame

   Synonym: flama

• llamarada
• llamear

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

llama f (plural llamas)

1. llama (camelid mammal)

• English: llama
• Portuguese: lhama, lama

See the etymology of the main entry., from llamar

llama

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of llamar.

   ¿Cómo se llama usted? — “What is your name?” (Literally, “How do [you] call yourself?”)

2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of llamar.

• “llama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.