Borrowed from Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”) or Yucatec Maya maaya, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. maya’ wíinik (“Maya man”).
Meanings
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.
A member or descendant of various peoples: ▸ various Mesoamerican peoples that continued in competing civilizations from the 10th century onward until conquered by Spain
A member or descendant of various peoples: ▸ various Mesoamerican peoples living in the Spanish Empire, and now parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
A member or descendant of various peoples: ▸ a variety of Mesoamerican peoples with farming from around 1000 BC onward, who developed a large civilization from the 3rd century onward
pt maia (person) · ru ма́йя (person) · de Majakultur (civilization) · de Mayakultur (civilization) · fi mayakulttuuri (civilization) · or ମାୟା (person) · yua maaya (person) · ca maia (person) · de Maya (person) · de Maja (person) · es maya (person) · ru ма́йя (civilization) · hi माया (civilization) · yua maaya wíinik (person) · or ମୟ (civilization) · fi maya (person) · or ମାୟା (civilization) · hi माया (person) · or ମୟ (person) · eo majao (person) · cmn 瑪雅人 /玛雅人 (person)
Borrowed from Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”) or Yucatec Maya maaya, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. maya’ wíinik (“Maya man”).
Meanings
The Yucatec Maya language.
Any of the other various Mayan languages. ▸ Quiché.
Any of the other various Mayan languages. ▸ Mam.
Any of the other various Mayan languages. ▸ Tzotzil.
* From Maria, ultimately from Hebrew,
* From Maia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa)
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A female given name
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. 1988, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, Picasso, Creator and Destroyer, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 240:
A female given name ▸ A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Maria, equivalent to English Mary
A female given name ▸ A female given name from Latin, variant of Maia, equivalent to English May
A female given name ▸ A female given name from Greek
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he מַאיָה (name) · ru Ма́йя (name) · ta மாயா (name) · uk Майя (name) · ar مَايَا (name) · hi माया (name) · hu Maja (name) · pl Maja (name) · fi Maija (name) · mr माया (name)
In Sanskrit, illusion and the power that creates it; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
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.' 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Phoenix House, →ISBN, page 891:
my မယ်တော်မာယာ (mother of Gautama Buddha) · hi माया (mother of Gautama Buddha) · km ព្រះនាងមាយា (mother of Gautama Buddha) · ta மாயா (mother of Gautama Buddha) · cmn 摩耶夫人 (mother of Gautama Buddha) · th พระนางสิริมหามายา (mother of Gautama Buddha) · si මායා දේවිය (mother of Gautama Buddha) · my မာယာ (mother of Gautama Buddha) · ta மாயாதேவி (mother of Gautama Buddha) · vi Hoàng hậu Maya (mother of Gautama Buddha)