llama

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma)bor. English llama Borrowed from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).

1. Archaic form of lama.

   “He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such periods as these without an inward quaking.”