Maya

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə

Self-designation of the Yucatec Mayas.

Maya (plural Mayas or Maya)

1. A Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala in the 4th to 10th centuries.
2. Any of the Mayan languages, such as Quiché and Yucatec.

Maya (plural Mayas)

1. A member or descendant of these people.

• Aztec
• Inca
• Mesoamerica
• Olmec
• Toltec

Ethnologue report on the Maya languages

From Maria, ultimately from Hebrew, and from Maia, from Latin.

Maya

1. A female given name 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.

Borrowed from Sanskrit माया (māyā́).

Maya

1. In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
2. A female given name 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.'

Borrowed from Sanskrit माया (māyā́) or Pali Māyā.

Maya

1. (Buddhism) mother of Gautama Buddha

• Amya, Yama, amay

Maya

1. A female given name, a modern spelling variant of Maja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.jaː/
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ya

Maya c (plural Maya's)

1. A Maya; a member of the Maya people.

Maya f

1. A female given name

Maya m or f (plural Mayas)

1. Mayan (person)

• Maja

Maya m (genitive Maya or Mayas, plural Maya or Mayas)

1. Maya

Maya

1. A female given name of modern usage, a variant of Maja (= Maria).

Maya

1. A female given name
2. a mountain name in Balkans