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ma⋅ya

  [mah-yah, -yuh]
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–noun Hinduism.
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.
Origin:
1815–25; < Skt

Related forms:
mayan, adjective
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Ma⋅ya

  [mah-yuh] noun, plural -yas, (especially collectively) -ya, adjective
–noun
1. 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.
2. a member of a modern American Indian people of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras who are the descendants of this ancient civilization.
3. any of the Mayan languages; the historical and modern languages of the Mayas.
–adjective
4. Mayan.
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ma·ya   (mä'yə)   
n.   Hinduism
  1. The power of a god or demon to transform a concept into an element of the sensible world.
  2. The transitory, manifold appearance of the sensible world, which obscures the undifferentiated spiritual reality from which it originates; the illusory appearance of the sensible world.

[Sanskrit māyā.]
Ma·ya   (mä'yə)   
n.   pl. Maya or Ma·yas
    1. A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around A.D. 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic writing system.
    2. A modern-day descendant of this people.
  2. Any of the Mayan languages, especially Quiché and Yucatec.

[Spanish.]
Ma'ya adj.
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Maya

Ma"ya\ (m[aum]"y[aum]), n. (Hindoo Philos.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
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Spanish: levadura,
German: die Hefe,
Japanese: 酵母
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