Definitions for Mayas

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Mayas ma·ya

Spelling: [mah-yah, -yuh]

IPA: /ˈmɑ yɑ, -yə/

Mayas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in Mayas (aamsy).

Definitions for Mayas

noun

1. the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
2. the production of an illusion.
3. (in Vedantic philosophy) the illusion of the reality of sensory experience and of the experienced qualities and attributes of oneself.
4. (initial capital letter). Also called Mahamaya. a goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena.
5. a member of a major pre-Columbian civilization of the Yucatán Peninsula that reached its peak in the 9th century a.d. and produced magnificent ceremonial cities with pyramids, a sophisticated mathematical and calendar system, hieroglyphic writing, and fine sculpture, painting, and ceramics.
6. a member of a modern American Indian people of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras who are the descendants of this ancient civilization.
7. any of the Mayan languages; the historical and modern languages of the Mayas.

adjective

1. Mayan.

Origin of Mayas

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1815-25

Examples for Mayas

There is no question that such was the case with the brief and bloody revolt of the mayas in 1761.

We can not affirm that we know this to be true of the mayas.

The architectural skill of the mayas must have been of a very high order.

The Nahuas on the north and the mayas on the south included the civilized nations.

We will now turn our attention to the ruins in the territory of the mayas.

We give a table showing the arrangement of the days of the year among the mayas.

The mayas are said to have placed the commencement of the year about the sixteenth of July.

We have found a number of points of resemblance between the mayas and the Nahuas.

Now, although they were said to be nameless days, the mayas gave them names.

To mayas horror it left one dead bee after another in its wake.