Definitions for Maya

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Maya ma·ya

Spelling: [mah-yah, -yuh]

IPA: /ˈmɑ yɑ, -yə/

Maya is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Maya (aamy).

Definitions for Maya

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 Maya

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1815-25

Examples for Maya

The moment maya awoke, glad sounds greeted her from all round.

The ancient maya believed that the underworld of caves was home to gods that controlled rainfall and harvest bounties.

Then there had been (the sigh changed in character) maya Wilson.

maya had made it very comfortable for herself in a hole in a tree.

The day we shot that scene, it was her first day on set and maya Angelou had died that morning.

"I've got to pass the course, Mr. Forrester," maya whispered.

We have maya Rudolph, rather than, say, Tina Fey, headlining an attempt to revive the television variety show.

Out of deep injury, maya Angelou had a way of finding universal hope.

The answer to this in Hindu thought is that the world is due to maya, illusion.

On death row in Sudan last week, Meriam Ibrahim gave birth to a girl, whom she named maya.