lama

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: llama

Borrowed from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama (plural lamas)

1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

• lamaism, lamaistic
• lamasery
• Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, Tashi Lama
• lamani

• lama on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

lama (plural lamas)

1. Alternative form of llama.

Borrowed from Spanish lama (“lamé”).

lama (plural lamas)

1. (obsolete) lamé (fabric with silver or gold threads woven in)
   • 1816, William Hone, Hone’s authentic account of the Royal Marriage, page 38:

     The Wedding Dress, composed of a most magnificent silver lama, on net, over a rich silver tissue slip, with a superb border of silver lama embroidery at the bottom, forming shells and bouquets; above the border a most elegant falling, tastefully designed, in festoons of rich silver lama, and finished with a very brilliant roleau^[sic] of lama.

• amla, ALMA, alma, Alam, Amal, laam, Alma, mala

• IPA^(key): /lama/ [la.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama, -a
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

From Latin flamma.

lama inan

1. (Northern) flame

   Synonym: sugar

Borrowed from Spanish lama, ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama anim

1. lama

• “lama”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “lama”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

lama

1. plate

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 174

• IPA^(key): /lama/
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama

1. old (age of non-living things)

   buku lama

   old book

• (antonym(s) of “age”): baru (“new”) (non-living things)

• (age): tua (“old”) (living things)

láma

1. Romanization of ላማ

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/

Borrowed from French lame. Cognates include Italian lama.

lama f (plural lame)

1. blade

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m

1. (Tibetan Buddhism) lama (religious person)

• Dalaï Lama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama f (plural lame)

1. llama (Lama glama)

• “lama” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): [ˈlama]
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama f

1. llama

• láma

lama m anim

1. (Buddhism) lama

• “lama”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lama”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): [ˈlæːma]

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama (definite singular lamaen, or (2 definition) lamaet, indefinite plural lamaer, definite plural lamaerne)

1. llama, Lama glama
2. textile fabric made from wool of lamas

gen-sg-2=lamaets

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama c (singular definite lamaen, plural indefinite lamaer)

1. Buddhist lama

• lamaisme
• lamaistisk

• “lama” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.maː/

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• Hyphenation: la‧ma

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (plural lama's, diminutive lamaatje n)

1. llama, Lama glama

   Synonym: schaapkameel

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

lama m (plural lama's, diminutive lamaatje n)

1. Buddhist lama

• dalai lama
• lamaïsme

lama

1. (informal, Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of laat maar (“never mind”)

• lm

• maal

From English lame and German lahm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

lama (accusative singular laman, plural lamaj, accusative plural lamajn)

1. lame (unable to walk properly)

• lame
• lameco
• lami

• kripla

• “lama”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “lama”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama f (genitive singular lamu, plural lamur)

1. llama

From Proto-Finnic *lama (compare Estonian lamama (“to lie down”), Ludian lama, Votic lama), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame, withered; defective”). Alternatively related to Moksha лама (lama) and Erzya ламо (lamo, “many”),^[1] although the semantic shift is problematic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑmɑ/, [ˈlɑ̝mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧ma

lama

1. paralysis, depression (state of being unable to act)

   Synonyms: lannistus, lamaannus, masennus, depressio

   Hallituksen päätöksenteko on lamassa.

   Government's decisionmaking is in a paralysis.

2. (economics) depression

   Coordinate term: taantuma (“recession, downturn”)

   Talous on lamassa.

   The economy is in a depression.

• “1. lama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ(ː)mɑ/, [ˈlɑ̝(ː)mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧ma

lama

1. (Buddhism) lama

• “2. lama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• Alma

• IPA^(key): /la.ma/

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From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (plural lamas)

1. llama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (plural lamas)

1. (Buddhism) lama

Inflected forms.

lama

1. third-person singular past historic of lamer

• “lama”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old Galician-Portuguese lama (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from Latin lāma (“marshy place, bog”), or from Paleo-Hispanic but having the same ultimate origin.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/ [ˈla.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama f (plural lamas)

1. mud

   Onde moitos cuspen, lama fan.

   Where many people spit, they make mud.

   (proverb)

   Synonyms: bullo, lodo, trollo

2. wet meadow; marsh; slough

   Synonyms: bulleiro, lameiro, lamela

• “lama”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “lama”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “lama”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lama”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama

1. llama

From Proto-Polynesian *rama, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaR (compare Māori rama (“torch”), Malay damar (“resin, torch”)).

lama

1. torch
2. light

• lamalama
• malama

• lama in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Proto-Austronesian *lama (“old, former”).

• IPA^(key): /lamaʔ/
• Hyphenation: la‧ma
• Rhymes: -maʔ

lama

1. long (duration of time)

   Lama amai Bunyau nyalin baju!

   It's taking so long for Bunyau to put on his clothes!

2. old (inanimate object)

   Utai lama

   Old stuff

3. old (something from the distant past)

   Kesultanan Sarawak lama

   The old Sarawak Sultanate

• amal

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːma/
• Rhymes: -aːma

lama (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lamaði, supine lamað)

1. to lame, cripple

lama (indeclinable)

1. lame

Inherited from Malay lama, from Proto-Austronesian *lama.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlama/ [ˈla.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

lama (comparative lebih lama, superlative paling lama)

1. long: having great duration; seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring

   Synonym: panjang

2. duration

   Synonym: durasi

3. ancient

   Synonym: kuno

4. old

   Synonyms: butut, tua

• “lama”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: là‧ma

Borrowed from French lame, from Latin lāmina. Doublet of lamina.

lama f (plural lame)

1. blade (of a razor or sword)
2. (figurative) swordsman/swordswoman

• lametta

• spada
• spadaccino

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (invariable)

1. lama (religious person)

• lamasseria

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama m (invariable)

1. llama

From Latin lāma.

lama f (plural lame)

1. bog, fen

• alma

From Old Javanese lama.

lama

1. old

Borrowed from Polish lama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

lama f

1. llama (Lama glama)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “lama”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[5]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlamːa]

lama

1. tongue

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “lama”, in Lamboya word list‎^[6], Leiden: LexiRumah

Uncertain. Possibly cognate to Lithuanian lomà (“hollow, valley”), Latvian lãma (“hollow, pool”),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂-mo-.^[2] Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (source of Latin lacus) via earlier *lacma or *lacsma.

lāma f (genitive lāmae); first declension

1. slough, bog, fen
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horatius, Epistulae 1.13.10:

     vīribus ūtēris per clīvōs, flūmina, lāmās.

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   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 568:

     [...] silvārum saltūs latebrās lāmāsque lutōsās [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• Asturian: llama
• Catalan: llama
• Galician: lama
• Italian: lama
• Portuguese: lama
• Spanish: lama

• “lama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lama", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lama”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lama”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Ultimately from Quechua llama.

lama f (4th declension)

1. llama

lama m (4th declension)

1. lama

From Proto-Austronesian *lama (“old, former”).

• (Standard Southern Peninsula) IPA^(key): /ˈlamə/ [ˈla.mə]
  • Rhymes: -amə, -ə
• (Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈlama/ [ˈla.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ama, -a
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama (Jawi spelling لاما, comparative lebih lama, superlative paling lama)

1. long (duration of time)

   Lamanya Agus tukar baju!

   It's taking so long for Agus to change his clothes!

2. old (inanimate object)

   Barang lama

   Old stuff

3. old (something from the distant past)

   Kesultanan Melayu Melaka lama

   The old Malacca Sultanate

• panjang (“long in length”)
• tua (“old in age”)

lama (Jawi spelling لاما, plural lama-lama or lama²)

1. lama

• "lama" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lama₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

lama

1. field
2. yard
3. lawn
4. playground

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[7] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

C.f. Classical Nahuatl ilama (“old woman”).

lama

1. female

• lamahchichi
• lamahtotoli
• lamatzin

• Brockway, Earl; Hershey de Brockway, Trudy; Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018), Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42)‎^[8] (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 72

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlama/

lama

1. inflection of lapmat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

From Spanish llama and Quechua llama.

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer, definite plural lamaene)

1. a llama (South American mammal)

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer, definite plural lamaene)

1. a lama (Buddhist monk or spiritual leader)

• “lama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lama_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “lama_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Spanish llama and Quechua llama.

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer or lamaar, definite plural lamaene or lamaane)

1. a llama (South American mammal)

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (definite singular lamaen, indefinite plural lamaer or lamaar, definite plural lamaene or lamaane)

1. a lama (Buddhist monk or spiritual leader)

• “lama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.mɑ/

lama

1. lame
2. (substantive) a lame person
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 2:10-11

     Hē cwæð tō þām laman, þē iċ seċġe, arīs, nim ðīn bed, and gā tō þīnum hūse.

     He said to the lame man, "I say to you, arise, take your bed, and go to your house."

• Middle English: lame
  • Geordie: lyem
  • Scots: lame
  • English: lame

lama

1. old

• (dialectal) ― lɛma (Qottu)

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *ɬam- (“two”). Compare Afar nammay, Hadiyya lamo, Rendille lama, Somali laba, Kambaata lamo.

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lamá

1. two

• laman (alternative spelling)

From Spanish la mar and Portuguese mar and Portuguese lama ("mire") and Kabuverdianu már.

Compare Nahuatl láma̱r.

lama

1. sea
2. ocean
3. beach

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ma/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

Borrowed from German Lama.

lama f

1. llama (Lama glama)

• → Kashubian: lama

Internationalism; compare English lama, French lama, German Lama, ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m pers

1. (Buddhism) lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

Borrowed from French lamé.

lama f

1. lamé (fabric)

• “lama”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[9] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “lama”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[10] (in Polish)

• Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

From Old Galician-Portuguese lama, from Latin lāma (“swamp”).

lama f (plural lamas)

1. mud (soil and water)

   Synonyms: barro, lodo

• lama vermelha
• enlamear
• arrastar pela lama

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma, “lama”).

lama m (plural lamas)

1. lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

lama m or f (plural lamas)

1. European Portuguese standard form of lhama

• lama on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “lama”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From French lama.

lama m (uncountable)

1. lama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /lama/, [ˈlama]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: la‧ma

lama f (relational adjective lamí)

1. (zoology) llama

• “lama”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

• IPA^(key): /làːma/

láma f

1. llama (South Americal mammal of the camel family, Llama glama)

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

• IPA^(key): /làːma/

láma m anim

1. lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

• “lama”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈlama/ [ˈla.ma]

• Audio (Costa Rica):

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: la‧ma

From Latin lama.

lama f (plural lamas)

1. slime, mud
2. fine sand
3. (Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico) moss

   Synonym: musgo

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama m (plural lamas)

1. (Buddhism) lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

lama

1. inflection of lamer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “lama”, 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

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.mɑ/

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lama class IX (plural lama class X)

1. llama (camelid animal)

• (Camelids) Camelidae: ngamia na jamaa; ngamia (“camel”) or jamali, lama (“llama”), - (“guanaco”), alpaka (“alpaca”), - (“vicuña”) ^{(Category: sw:Camelids) [edit]}

lama

1. inflection of lam:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

lama c

1. lama; a monk
2. (animal) llama

• “lama”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• Alma

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

lama (definite accusative lamayı, plural lamalar)

1. llama, Lama glama

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

lama (definite accusative lamayı, plural lamalar)

1. lama, a master of Tibetan Buddhism