different between llama vs vicuna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?m?/, or (rare, foreign) IPA^(key): /?j?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Homophone: lama

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 called a macho, and a female llama is called an hembra.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• lamoid

Translations

Anagrams

• Allam

Classical Quechua

Noun

llama

1. llama.

Quechua

Noun

llama

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

Declension

Descendants

• ? Spanish: llama
  • ? English: llama

See also

• allpaqa
• wanaku
• wik'uña

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin flamma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare Catalan flama, Italian fiamma, Portuguese chama, French flamme, German Flamme. Doublet of flama, which was borrowed.

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)

Descendants

• English: llama
• Portuguese: lhama, lama

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry., from llamar

Verb

llama

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of llamar.

2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of llamar.

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• vicuña, vicugna

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vicuña, itself borrowed from Quechua wik'uña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??ku?nj?/

Noun

vicuna (plural vicunas)

1. A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco.

Synonyms

• (Binomial name): Lama vicugna, Vicugna vicugna

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

Anagrams

• UNIVAC