Maya

maya mayá maþa māyā Translingual Etymology mul en:Mayan hieroglyphs,fr:hiéroglyphes mayas. Symbol mul Q211248 Mayan hieroglyphs English en <dab!> Pronunciation en /ˈmaɪə/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Maya.wav Southern England en aɪə 2 en Mayer<a:non-rhotic> Meyer mire Etymology 1 en es maya, from en yua mayab flat or en yua maaya, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form yua maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. yua maya’ wíinik Maya man. en senses ("member or descendant of") and translation ("civilization") don't match: fi mayakulttuuri & de Mayakultur only denote the civilisation but not a person. Also, Etymology3&4 may be merged Noun s * en Q45914 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 en Maya blue Translations person Catalan: ca maia m f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 瑪雅人 Mǎyǎ rén Esperanto: eo majao Finnish: fi maya French: fr Maya m f German: de Maja m, de Maya m Hindi: hi माया m f Marathi: mr माया Odia: or ମୟ, or ମାୟା Portuguese: pt maia m f Russian: ru ма́йя m f Spanish: es maya m f Turkish: tr Maya Yucatec Maya: yua maaya, yua maaya wíinik civilization Finnish: fi mayakulttuuri German: de Majakultur f, de Mayakultur f Hindi: hi माया f Odia: or ମୟ, or ମାୟା Russian: ru ма́йя m Proper noun en Q13354 en Languages The Yucatec Maya language. en Q33738 en Languages Any of the other various Mayan languages. en Q36494 Quiché. en Q33467 Mam. en Q36809 Tzotzil. Translations language Catalan: ca maia m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 瑪雅語 Mǎyǎyǔ Finnish: fi mayakieli Hindi: hi माया f Marathi: mr माया f Persian: fa مایا mâyâ Portuguese: pt maia m, pt iucateque m Russian: ru ма́йя m Spanish: es maya m Turkish: tr Mayaca Yucatec Maya: yua maayatʼaan See also en Aztec Inca Mesoamerica Olmec Toltec Further reading Ethnologue report on the Maya languages Etymology 2 From en Maria, ultimately from en he -, From en Maia, from en la -, from en grc Μαῖα Pronunciation en /maɪ.ə/ UK,US en /mæɪ.ə/ /mɑe.ə/ AU Proper noun s en Q935522 en female en 1988 Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington Picasso, Creator and Destroyer Simon and Schuster 0671454463 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. en female Hebrew modern Mary Maria en female Latin May Maia en female Greek Translations name Arabic: ar مَايَا f māya Finnish: fi Maija Hebrew: he מַאיָה máya Hindi: hi माया f Hungarian: hu Maja Marathi: mr माया f Polish: pl Maja f Russian: ru Ма́йя f Tamil: ta மாயா Ukrainian: uk Майя f Etymology 3 en sa माया. Proper noun en Q223890 In Sanskrit, illusion and the power that creates it; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this"). en maya<id:Q223890> en female Sanskrit used in India. en 1993 w:Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Phoenix House 1897580207 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.' Translations illusion Tamil: ta மாயை name Tamil: ta மாயா Etymology 4 + (mother of the Buddha) en sa माया māyā́ or en pi Māyā 1. Proper noun en Q877831 en Individuals en Buddhism The mother of Gautama Buddha. Translations mother of Gautama Buddha Burmese: my မယ်တော်မာယာ, my မာယာ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 摩耶夫人 Hindi: hi माया f Khmer: km ព្រះនាងមាយា Sinhalese: si මායා දේවිය Tamil: ta மாயா, ta மாயாதேவி Thai: th พระนางสิริมหามายา Vietnamese: vi Hoàng hậu Maya See also en Maiya Maia Anagrams en aamy Amya Ayam Yama amay Danish Proper noun da proper noun da female modern Maja Dutch Pronunciation nl /ˈmaː.jaː/ nl Ma ya Etymology 1 Noun c -'s - a en Maya; a member of the Maya people Etymology 2 Proper noun f nl female French Pronunciation maïa fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Maya.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>) fr Maaia Maia maïa Maïa maja fr ja 2 Noun mfbysense Mayan person fr Demonyms German Alternative forms de Maja Pronunciation de De-Maya.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,(s),(s) Maya Derived terms de Mayakultur de Mayatempel Proper noun de proper noun de female Maja modern de Demonyms Indonesian id: Etymology id es maya, from id yua mayab flat, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form yua maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. yua maya’ wíinik Maya man. Pronunciation id maya Noun - id Q45914en 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 Proper noun en Maya id Q13354 The Yucatec Maya language. id Q33738 Any of the other various Mayan languages. id Q36494 Quiché. id Q33467 Mam. id Q36809 Tzotzil. Further reading Thao Proper noun ssf proper noun ssf female References Turkish Pronunciation tr Proper noun tr female a mountain name in Balkans