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la⋅ma

  [lah-muh]
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–noun
a priest or monk in Lamaism.
Origin:
1645–55; < Tibetan lama (sp. bla ma) lit., superior one (in Tibetan applied only to monks of high rank)
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la·ma   (lä'mə)   
n.  A Buddhist monk of Tibet or Mongolia.

[Tibetan bla-ma, the upper one, lama, from bla, superior.]
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Cultural Dictionary

lama [(lah-muh)]

In the Buddhism of Tibet, a monk or priest. The chief of the lamas is the Dalai Lama.

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Word Origin & History

lama 
"Buddhist priest of Mongolia or Tibet," 1654, from Tibetan blama "chief, high priest," with silent b-.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Lama

(Matt. 27:46), a Hebrew word meaning why, quoted from Ps. 22:1.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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