lama

See also: Lama, láma, lāma, lamă, lǎma, and La Mã

English

a lama

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑː.mə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːmə
  • Homophone: llama

Etymology 1

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Noun

lama (plural lamas)

  1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
Translations

Further reading

Etymology 2

Noun

lama (plural lamas)

  1. Alternative form of llama

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: la‧ma

Noun

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

  1. Buddhist lama
  2. llama

Anagrams

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

lama f (genitive singular lamu, plural lamur)

  1. llama

Declension

Declension of lama
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lama laman lamur lamurnar
accusative lamu lamuna lamur lamurnar
dative lamu lamuni lamum lamunum
genitive lamu lamunnar lama lamanna

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from (or akin to) Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame, withered; defective”). Cognates include Estonian lamama (“to lie down”).

Noun

lama

  1. (economics) depression
    Talous on lamassa.
    The economy is in a depression.
  2. paralysis, depression (state of being inable to act)
    Hallituksen päätöksenteko on lamassa.
    Government's decisionmaking is in a paralysis.

Declension

Inflection of lama (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative lama lamat
genitive laman lamojen
partitive lamaa lamoja
illative lamaan lamoihin
singular plural
nominative lama lamat
accusative nom. lama lamat
gen. laman
genitive laman lamojen
lamainrare
partitive lamaa lamoja
inessive lamassa lamoissa
elative lamasta lamoista
illative lamaan lamoihin
adessive lamalla lamoilla
ablative lamalta lamoilta
allative lamalle lamoille
essive lamana lamoina
translative lamaksi lamoiksi
instructive — lamoin
abessive lamatta lamoitta
comitative — lamoineen

Synonyms

Derived terms

Compounds

Etymology 2

Noun

lama

  1. (Buddhism) lama
Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lama/

Etymology 1

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

lama m (plural lamas)

  1. llama

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Noun

lama m (plural lamas)

  1. (Buddhism) lama

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

lama

  1. third-person singular past historic of lamer

Further reading

Galician

Lama ("mud")

Etymology

Either from Latin lāma (“marshy place, bog”), or from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia but having the same ultimate origin.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlama̝/

Noun

lama f (plural lamas)

  1. mud
    Onde moitos cuspen, lama fan
    Where many people spit, they make mud
    (proverb)
  2. wet meadow; marsh

References

  • “lama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “lama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “lama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “lama” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “lama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ↑ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. lama.
  2. ↑ Cf. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 324.

Hawaiian

Etymology

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

Noun

lama

  1. torch
  2. light

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaːma/
  • Rhymes: -aːma

Verb

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

  1. to lame, cripple

Conjugation

lamast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að lamast
supine
(sagnbót)		 lamast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 lamandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég lamast við lömumst present
(nútíð)		 ég lamist við lömumst
þú lamast þið lamist þú lamist þið lamist
hann, hún, það lamast þeir, þær, þau lamast hann, hún, það lamist þeir, þær, þau lamist
past
(þátíð)		 ég lamaðist við lömuðumst past
(þátíð)		 ég lamaðist við lömuðumst
þú lamaðist þið lömuðust þú lamaðist þið lömuðust
hann, hún, það lamaðist þeir, þær, þau lömuðust hann, hún, það lamaðist þeir, þær, þau lömuðust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 lamast (þú) lamist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
lamastu lamisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Adjective

lama (invariable)

  1. lame

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.ma/

Adjective

lama

  1. long (Time)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈla.ma/, [ˈl̺äːmä]
  • Hyphenation: là‧ma

Etymology 1

From French lame, from Latin lāmina.

Noun

lama f (plural lame)

  1. blade (of a razor or sword)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Noun

lama m (invariable)

  1. lama (religious person)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

lama m (plural lami)

  1. llama

Etymology 4

From Latin lāma.

Noun

lama f (plural lame)

  1. bog, fen

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

For *lacma, from Proto-Indo-European *lak-. Cognate with Latin lacus.

Noun

lāma f (genitive lāmae); first declension

  1. slough, bog, fen
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative lāma lāmae
genitive lāmae lāmārum
dative lāmae lāmīs
accusative lāmam lāmās
ablative lāmā lāmīs
vocative lāma lāmae
Descendants

References

  • 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

Latvian

Noun

lama f (4th declension)

  1. llama

Declension

Noun

lama m (4th declension)

  1. lama

Declension

Malay

Adjective

lama

  1. long

See also

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈlama/

Verb

lama

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

Novial

Noun

lama f (plural lamas)

  1. llama

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑmɑ/

Adjective

lama

  1. lame

Descendants

Papiamentu

Noun

lama

  1. Alternative form of laman (“sea”)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈla.ma/
  • audio(file)

Etymology 1

lama (#1)

From Spanish llama, from Quechua

Noun

lama f

  1. llama
Declension

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma)

Noun

lama m pers

  1. lama
Declension

Etymology 3

From French lame.

Noun

lama f

  1. lamé (fabric)
Declension

Portuguese

lama

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɐ.mɐ/
  • Rhymes: -ama

Etymology 1

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

Noun

lama f (uncountable)

  1. mud (soil and water)
    Synonyms: barro, lodo
Derived terms
  • lama vermelha

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma, “lama”).

Noun

lama m (plural lamas)

  1. lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)

Etymology 3

Noun

lama m or f (in variation) (plural lamas)

  1. Alternative form of lhama

Further reading

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɫama/

Noun

lama f (genitive singular lamy, nominative plural lamy, genitive plural lám, declension pattern of žena)

  1. (zoology) llama

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • lama in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlàːma/
  • Tonal orthography: láma

Noun

láma f (genitive láme, nominative plural láme)

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

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlàːma/
  • Tonal orthography: láma

Noun

láma m anim (genitive láme, nominative plural láme)

  1. lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism)
Declension

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin lama.

Noun

lama f (plural lamas)

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

Etymology 2

From Tibetan

Noun

lama m (plural lamas)

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

Etymology 3

Verb

lama

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lamer.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lamer.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lamer.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lamer.

Swedish

Adjective

lama

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of lam.

Noun

lama c

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

Declension

Declension of lama 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lama laman lamor lamorna
Genitive lamas lamans lamors lamornas

References

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