Maya
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪə
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”), a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. maya’ wíinik (“Maya man”).
Noun edit
Maya (plural Mayas or Maya)
- A member or descendant of various peoples:
- a flourishing Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala from the 3rd century to the 9th century.
- various Mesoamerican peoples that continued in competing civilizations from the 10th century onward until conquered by Spain
- various Mesoamerican peoples living in the Spanish Empire, and now parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
- a variety of Mesoamerican peoples with farming from around 1000 BC onward, who developed a large civilization from the 3rd century onward
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
person
civilization
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Proper noun edit
Maya
- The Yucatec Maya language.
- Any of the other various Mayan languages, such as Quiché, Mam and Tzotzil.
Translations edit
language
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Translations to be checked
See also edit
Further reading edit
Ethnologue report on the Maya languages
Etymology 2 edit
From Maria, ultimately from Hebrew, and from Maia, from Latin.
Proper noun edit
Maya
- A female given name from Hebrew of modern usage.
- 1988, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, Picasso, Creator and Destroyer, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 240:
- When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la Concepción. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, that con in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound like Maya. "Maya!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." So Maya it was from then on - Maya Walter.
Translations edit
name
Etymology 3 edit
Transliteration of Sanskrit माया (māyā).
Proper noun edit
Maya
- In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
- A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Phoenix House, →ISBN, page 891:
- Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities.
- - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'
Etymology 4 edit
Transliteration of Sanskrit माया (māyā́) or Pali Māyā.
Proper noun edit
Maya
Translations edit
mother of Gautama Buddha
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Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Proper noun edit
Maya
- a female given name of modern usage, variant of Maja
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
Maya c (plural Maya's)
- A Maya; a member of the Maya people.
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Maya f
- a female given name
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Maya m or f by sense (plural Mayas)
- Mayan (person)
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Noun edit
Maya m (strong, genitive Mayas or Maya, plural Mayas or Maya)
Derived terms edit
Proper noun edit
Maya
- a female given name of modern usage, variant of Maja
Turkish edit
Proper noun edit
Maya
- a female given name
- a mountain name in Balkans
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