maya

From Sanskrit माया (māyā).

maya (uncountable)

1. (Hindu mythology) Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods.
2. (Hinduism, Buddhism) The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality.
   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 58:

     Shankara prescribed meditative reflection, through which each individual could pierce the veil of maya and come to recognize the identity between his or her essence and the universal spirit.

• maya bird

• Amya, Ayam, Yama, amay

• IPA^(key): /ma.ja/

maya (mä)

1. one

   Mä utanïtwa.

   I have one house.

• mayiri
• mapita

From Persian مایه (mâye).

maya (definite accusative mayanı, plural mayalar)

1. capital (money and wealth)

   Synonyms: sərmayə, kapital

2. leaven, ferment, barm, yeast
3. fetus

   Synonyms: döl, rüşeym

4. source, origin, basis

   Synonyms: əsas, əsil, kök

maya (definite accusative mayanı, plural mayalar)

1. female camel

• IPA^(key): /majə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ya

From Sanskrit माय (māya, “illusion”).

maya (Balinese script ᬫᬵᬬ)

1. supernatural, annihilated

From Sanskrit माया (māyā, “illusion”).

maya (Balinese script ᬫᬵᬬᬵ)

1. shadow

maya

1. sparrow

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈmaja/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ma‧ya

maya

1. any bird of the genus Lonchura
2. the chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
3. generically, any small, nondescript bird

maya

1. (slang) bisexual; sexually attracted to both men and women

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /maˈjaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧ga

maya

1. cheerful
2. jubilant

maya

1. to be jubilant

For quotations using this term, see Citations:maya.

From Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯jɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝i̯j(ː)ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑijɑ
• Homophones: maija, Maija
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧ya
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧ya

maya

1. Maya, Mayan (person)

• mayaintiaani

• “maya”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ma.ja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ja

maya (plural mayas)

1. (relational) Mayan (relating to the Mayans)
2. (relational) Mayan (relating to the Mayan language)

• The plural of maya may either be mayas or maya.

• “maya”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /màː.jáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [màː.jáː]

mā̀yā m (possessed form mā̀yan)

1. weevil

• IPA^(key): /ma.ja/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ya
• Rhymes: -aja

maya

1. when

maya

1. during

From Malay maya, from Pali maya, from Sanskrit माया (māyā).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaja/ [ˈma.ja]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: ma‧ya

maya

1. simulated
2. unreal
3. virtual

   dunia maya ― virtual world

• “maya” 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.

• ayam

Borrowed from Pali maya, from Sanskrit माया (māyā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaja/ [ˈma.ja]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: ma‧ya

maya (Jawi spelling ماي)

1. illusionary
2. virtual

• Indonesian: maya

• “maya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

maya

1. sparrow

maya m or f by sense (plural mayas)

1. obsolete spelling of maia

maya m or f (plural mayas, not comparable)

1. obsolete spelling of maia

Borrowed from French maya.

maya f (uncountable)

1. maya

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• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: ma‧ya

Originally from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”).

maya m or f (masculine and feminine plural mayas)

1. Mayan (from Maya)

maya m or f by sense (plural mayas)

1. Maya (person)

maya m (uncountable)

1. Maya (language family)
2. (Mexico) Yucatec Maya language.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

maya

1. inflection of mayar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “maya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• Audio (Kenya):

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maya class IX (plural maya class X)

1. anger

   Synonym: chuki

From Proto-Philippine *máya (“rice bird, small bird found in rice fields”). Alternatively, from Sanskrit माया (māyā, “illusion”), according to Pardo de Tavera (1887).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmaja/ [ˈmaː.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: ma‧ya

maya (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜌ)

1. chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
2. sparrow
3. Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus)

The original term has become obsolete. However recent usage is due to clipping of mamaya.

Pardo de Tavera (1887) posits it to come from Sanskrit समय (samaya, “appointed or proper time, right moment for doing anything, opportunity, occasion, time, season”) with the first syllable mistaken as the sa- prefix, hence later elided. Compare Javanese ꦱꦼꦩꦪ (semaya, “to postpone; to delay”), Old Javanese samaya, Indonesian semaya. See also samaya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈjaʔ/ [mɐˈjaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ma‧ya

mayâ (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜌ)

1. after a short period

• Used mostly in derived terms.

• “maya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 689
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 827.
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*máya”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Pardo de Tavera, Trinidad Hermenegildo (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog, la Faculté de médecine, A. Davy, pages 37-38

• ayam, yama

From Ottoman Turkish مایه (maya).

• IPA^(key): [mɑjɑ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ya

maya (definite accusative mayayı, plural mayalar)

1. yeast (to make bread; fungi)
2. mountain name in Balkans (clarification of this definition is needed)
3. female camel

   Antonyms: lök, ner

maya

1. nature

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ja/

maya

1. (stative) to be ashamed

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics