flama

Uncertain.

flama f

1. (mythology) restless evil ghost that's responbile for people's mental decline.[1] [2]

From Latin flamma.

flama f

1. flame

From Latin flamma.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfla.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ma/

flama f (plural flames)

1. flame

• inflamar

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

flama f

1. flame

• 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 (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 599

Borrowed 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

Borrowed 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/
• Syllabification: fla‧ma

flama f

1. flame

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

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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