llama

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑmə/, or (rare, foreign) IPA^(key): /ˈjɑmə/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlɐː.mə/, /ˈlaː.mə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: lama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

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.
3. (slang) A firearm, especially a handgun.

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

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

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

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

Borrowed 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.

• Allam, Malla

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)

• llamuerga

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

llama f (plural llames)

1. flame

   Synonyms: llapa, llapada, llaparada

Inherited from Latin lamina. Doublet of llámina.

• llambria (Eastern)

llama f (plural llames)

1. slab, flagstone

   Synonyms: llábana, llosa

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /ʎama/ [ʎa.ma]

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• 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]

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈʎa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈʎa.ma]

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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”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Spanish llamar (“to call”).

• IPA^(key): /ʎaˈma/, [ʎaˈma]
• Hyphenation: lla‧ma

llamá

1. to call

llama

1. llama

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /ja.ma/

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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)

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

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• wanaku
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• 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)

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

• → 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
• → German: Lama
• → Portuguese: lhama, lama (Portugal)
• → Tagalog: liyama
• → Danish: lama

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

llama

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

• “llama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025