flama

Uncertain.

flama f

1. (mythology) restless evil ghost that's responsible for people's mental decline.^{[1] [2]}

From Latin flamma.

flama f

1. flame

Inherited from Latin flamma.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfla.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfla.ma]

flama f (plural flames)

1. flame

• ablamar
• aflamar
• flamada
• flamar
• flamejar

• flamant
• inflamar

• “flama”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

flama f

1. flame

• fla̱ma (Bressan)
• flama (Dauphinois)

flama (plural flames) (ORB, narrow)

1. alternative form of fllama (“flame”)

• flama in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎^[1], University of Paris, page 130

• IPA^(key): /fla.ma/
• Homophones: flamas, flamât

flama

1. third-person singular past historic of flamer

From Latin flamma. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French flame.

flama f (oblique plural flamas, nominative singular flama, nominative plural flamas)

1. flame (visible part of fire)

• Occitan: flamba, flama

• foc

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “flamma”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 599

Learned borrowing from Latin flamma, from Proto-Italic *flagmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: fla‧ma

flama f

1. (archaic) female lover

   Synonym: kochanka

• flama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin flamma. Doublet of chama.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: fla‧ma

flama f (plural flamas)

1. (poetic) flame (visible part of fire)

   Synonyms: chama, labareda

2. (figuratively) liveliness, ardor

• IPA^(key): [ˈflama]

flama f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flamă

Borrowed from German Flamme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: fla‧ma

flama f

1. flame

• Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “flama”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian dialects] (in Polish), Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 86

Borrowed from Latin flamma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflama/ [ˈfla.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: fla‧ma

flama f (plural flamas)

1. flame (visible part of fire)

   Synonym: llama

• “flama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Ottoman Turkish فلامه (flama, filama), from one or more Romance languages, from Latin flamma. Compare French flamme, Occitan flamo, Friulian fláme, Italian fiamma.

flama (definite accusative flamayı, plural flamalar)

1. streamer, pennant

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 289
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN