Lama

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lama
    n 1: a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism
    2: llamas [syn: {Lama}, {genus Lama}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lama \La"ma\ (?; 277), n. (Zool.)
   See {Llama}.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lama \La"ma\, n. [Tibet. blama (pronounced l[aum]"ma) a chief, a
   high priest.]
   In Tibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief
   called Lamaism.
   [1913 Webster]

   {The Grand Lama}, or {Dalai Lama} [lit., Ocean Lama], the
      supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. Until the
      Chinese occupied Tibet he resided in Lhasa, but now (1998)
      is in exile. See {Lamaism}.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]
    
from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Lama
(Matt. 27:46), a Hebrew word meaning why, quoted from Ps. 22:1.
    

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