ulama

Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl ōllamaliztli. Doublet of ullamaliztli.

ulama (uncountable)

1. A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.

Borrowed from Arabic عُلَمَاء (ʕulamāʔ). Doublet of ulema and olema.

ulama pl (plural only)

1. (Islam) Alternative form of ulema.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 469:

     There he […] became disillusioned with much of the Islamic clerical establishment, and first expressed his contempt for what he called ‘religious secularists’, those foolish ulama who attempt to separate politics from religion.

Borrowed from Sinhalese [Term?].

ulama

1. The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka)
   • 1849 June, The Dublin University Magazine, page 692:

     There is a bird in Ceylon, which the natives call ulama, or the demon bird, which utters most loud and ear-piercing screams, strongly resembling the shrieks of a human being in severe bodily agony.

• IPA^(key): (ulamá) [uɫɑˈmɑ]
• IPA^(key): (uláma) [uˈɫɑmɑ]
• Hyphenation: u‧la‧ma

From ula- (“to howl”) +‎ -ma.

ulamá (definite accusative ulamani, plural ulamalər)

1. verbal noun of ulamaq (“to howl”)
2. howl (protracted, mournful cry of an animal)

uláma

1. second-person singular imperative negative of ulamaq

From dialectal ula- (“joint, connect, to attach”) +‎ -ma.

ulama (definite accusative ulamanı, plural ulamalar)

1. (horticulture) graft (small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree) ^{[nt. 1]}

   Synonym: calaq

2. (agriculture) plow beam (wooden structural element connecting the plow to the yoke) ^{[nt. 2]}

• “ulama” in Obastan.com.

From Malay ulama, from Classical Malay ulama, from Arabic عُلَمَاء (ʕulamāʔ), plural of عَالِم (ʕālim, “learned one”).

• IPA^(key): /u.la.ma/
• Hyphenation: ula‧ma

ulama

1. (Islam) alim

• “ulama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

ulama f (uncountable)

1. a Mesoamerican game played with a rubber ball and racquet

From ulamak (“to attach”) + -ma

• IPA^(key): /u.ɫɑˈmɑ/

ulama (definite accusative ulamayı, plural ulamalar)

1. verbal noun of ulamak
2. (linguistics) liaison

ulama

1. second-person singular negative imperative of ulamak

• “ulama”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu