chama

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

chama (plural chamas)

1. (East Africa, chiefly Kenya) Any of several types of informal cooperative society.
   1. (often) Such a group for pooling and investing savings.

      Hypernym: ROSCA

• Macha

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin flamma (“flame”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Spanish llama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃama̝/

chama f (plural chamas)

1. flame

   Synonym: lapa

• chamizo
• chamurra
• chamuscar

chama

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

• “chama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

chama

1. to distribute among individuals

• IPA^(key): /ˈxamˠə/

chama

1. Lenited form of cama.

Variant form of chēma, from Ancient Greek χήμη (khḗmē).

chāma f (genitive chāmae); first declension

1. bivalve, shellfish, clam; cockle

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Unknown. Used by Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia.

chama n (genitive chamatis); third declension

1. lynx
   • (Can we date this quote?), Plinius, Naturalis Historia, liber I. In: Pliny Natural History with an English translation by H. Rackham, vol. I, 1961, p. 40–43:

     Libro VIII. continentur: [...] (xxvi-xxx) De camelis; genera eorum. de camelopardali; quando primimi Romae visa. de chamate. de cephis, de rhinocerote. de lynce et sphingibus. de crocottis. de cercopithecis.

     Book VIII. Contents: [...] (xxvi-xxx) Camels; their kinds. The giraffe; when first seen at Rome. The spotted lynx. The cephi. The rhinoceros. The lynx and the sphynxes. The crocottae.^b The long-tailed monkeys.
     ^b Perhaps the hyena.

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• “chama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• chama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

chama

1. Alternative spelling of chamma: Lenited form of cama.

• Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
• Hyphenation: cha‧ma

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Latin flamma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlē- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Cognate with Spanish llama. Doublet of flama.

chama f (plural chamas)

1. flame (visible part of fire)

   Synonym: flama

2. (figurative) flame (great zeal or passion)

   Synonym: ardor

• chamiço

• fogo, incêndio, labareda, língua de fogo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chama

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃama/ [ˈt͡ʃa.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: cha‧ma

chama m (plural chamas)

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
2. female equivalent of chamo

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

• Audio (Kenya)

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chama (ki-vi class, plural vyama)

1. organization, society
2. union
3. party (a political party)
4. club

• mwanachama

From a Khoe language. Compare Khoekhoe ǀkham (“urinate”).

-chama

1. (intransitive) to urinate

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From a Khoe language. Compare Khoekhoe ǀkham (“urinate”).

-chama

1. (intransitive) to urinate

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• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “chama”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “chama (6.3)”