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Yes. The word llama is a Scrabble US word. The word llama is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word llama is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

LLAMA,

4-letter words (5 found)

ALMA,AMLA,LAMA,MALA,MALL,

3-letter words (7 found)

AAL,ALA,ALL,AMA,LAM,MAA,MAL,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AL,AM,LA,MA,

You can make 18 words from llama according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of llama

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Definitions and meaning of llama

llama

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

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.
Usage notes
  • A male llama is often called a macho, and a female llama is often called an hembra.
Coordinate terms
  • (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña (Category: en:Camelids)
Derived terms
  • drama llama
  • lamoid
Descendants
  • → Chinese: 駱馬／骆马 (luòmǎ) (semantic loan)
  • → Irish: láma
  • → Japanese: ラマ (rama)
  • → Korean: 라마 (rama)
  • → Welsh: lama
Translations

Etymology 2

From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

Noun

llama (plural llamas)

  1. Archaic form of lama.

Anagrams

  • Allam, Malla

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʎama/ [ʎa.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Hyphenation: lla‧ma

Noun

llama anim

  1. llama

Declension

Further reading

  • "llama" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʎa.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈʎa.ma]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Noun

llama m or f by sense (plural llames)

  1. llama

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French lame.

Noun

llama f (plural llames)

  1. lamé

Further reading

  • “llama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Classical Quechua

Noun

llama

  1. llama.

French

Etymology

From Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ja.ma/

Noun

llama m (plural llamas)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of lama

Quechua

Noun

llama

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

Declension

Descendants

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

See also

  • allpaqa
  • wanaku
  • wik'uña

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Syllabification: lla‧ma

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

llama f (plural llamas)

  1. flame
    Synonym: flama
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua llama.

Noun

llama f (plural llamas)

  1. llama (camelid mammal)
Coordinate terms
  • (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña (Category: es:Camelids)
Descendants
  • → 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
  • → Portuguese: lhama, lama
  • → Tagalog: liyama

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

llama

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

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org