name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lama
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈlɑː.mə/
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rhymes with -ɑːmə
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homophone: llama
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CMU ARPABET: L AA1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of llama.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 4
lamé (fabric with silver or gold threads woven in)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
Initialism of long-acting muscarinic antagonist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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phrase
Meaning 6
Initialism of leaving/left against medical advice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
llamas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: genus Lama
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mammal genus
noun
Meaning 8
a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: priest, non-Christian priest
Narrower terms: Dalai Lama, Grand Lama, Panchen Lama
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Borrowed from Spanish lama (“lamé”).
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: لَامَا (lāmā) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Armenian: լամա (lama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Belarusian: ла́ма (láma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Bulgarian: ла́ма (láma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Buryat: лама (lama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Catalan: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Chinese Mandarin: 喇嘛 (lǎma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Czech: láma — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Dutch: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Esperanto: lamao — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Finnish: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- French: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Georgian: ლამა (lama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- German: Lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Greek: λάμα (láma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Gujarati: લામા (lāmā) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Hindi: लामा (lāmā) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Hungarian: láma — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Ido: lamao — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Interlingua: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Irish: láma — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Japanese: ラマ (rama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Japanese: 喇嘛 (rama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Kalmyk: лам (lam) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Khamnigan Mongol: лама (lama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Korean: 라마 (rama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Malay: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Manchu: ᠯᠠᠮᠠ (lama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Marathi: लामा (lāmā) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Classical Mongolian: ᠪᠯᠠᠮᠠ (blam-a) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Classical Mongolian: ᠯᠠᠮᠠ (lam-a) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Mongolian: лам (lam) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Mongolian: ᠯᠠᠮᠠ (lama) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Nepali: लामा (lāmā) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Norwegian Bokmål: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Odia: ଲାମା (lāmā) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Old Uyghur: 𐾁𐽰𐽹𐽰 — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Persian: لاما (lâmâ) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Polish: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Portuguese: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Romanian: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Russian: ла́ма (láma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Slovene: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Spanish: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Swedish: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Thai: ลามะ (laa-má) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Tibetan: བླ་མ (bla ma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Ukrainian: ла́ма (láma) — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Vietnamese: lạt-ma — master of Tibetan Buddhism
- Welsh: lama — master of Tibetan Buddhism