flama

See also: flamă and flamą

Albanian

Etymology

Uncertain.

Proper noun

flama f

1. (mythology) restless evil ghost that's responsible for people's mental decline.

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin flamma.

Noun

flama f

1. flame

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin flamma.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

flama f (plural flames)

1. flame

Derived terms

• ablamar
• aflamar
• flamada
• flamar
• flamejar

Related terms

• flamant
• inflamar

Further reading

• “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

Extremaduran

Noun

flama f

1. flame

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• fla̱ma (Bressan)
• flama (Dauphinois)

Noun

flama (plural flames) (ORB, narrow)

1. alternative form of fllama (“flame”)

References

• 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

French

Pronunciation

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

Verb

flama

1. third-person singular past historic of flamer

Old Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. flame (visible part of fire)

Descendants

• Occitan: flamba, flama

See also

• foc

References

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

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ma/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: fla‧ma

Noun

flama f

1. (archaic) female lover

   Synonym: kochanka

Declension

Declension of flama

	singular	plural
nominative	flama	flamy
genitive	flamy	flam
dative	flamie	flamom
accusative	flamę	flamy
instrumental	flamą	flamami
locative	flamie	flamach
vocative	flamo	flamy

Further reading

• “flama”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “flama”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.

Proto-Italic *flagmā

Latin flammalbor.

Portuguese flama

Learned borrowing from Latin flamma. Doublet of chama.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflɐ̃.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflɐ̃.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflɐ.ma/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈflɐ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈflɐ.mɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfla.mɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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

Noun

flama f (plural flamas)

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

   Synonyms: chama, labareda

2. (figuratively) liveliness, ardor

Further reading

• “flama”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “flama”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈflama]

Noun

flama f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flamă

Silesian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.

Proto-Italic *flagmā

Latin flammabor.

Old High German flamma

Middle High German vlamme

German Flammebor.

Silesian flama

Borrowed from German Flamme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ma/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: fla‧ma

Noun

flama f

1. flame

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.

Proto-Italic *flagmā

Latin flammabor.

Spanish flama

Borrowed from Latin flamma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flama f (plural flamas)

1. flame (visible part of fire)

   Synonym: llama

Further reading

• “flama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

flama (definite accusative flamayı, plural flamalar)

1. streamer, pennant

References

• 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