mayan.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɑːjɑː/,

/ˈmʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈmɑˌjɑ/,

/ˈmaɪə/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit māyā.

Etymology: < Sanskrit māyā extraordinary or supernatural power (in early texts); illusion, unreality, deception, magic, etc. (in later texts).

In Hindu mythology: illusion, magic; the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons. In Hindu and Buddhist philosophy: the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]

hue971

glozea1300

showingc1300

coloura1325

illusionc1340

frontc1374

simulationc1380

visage1390

cheera1393

sign?a1425

countenance?c1425

study?c1430

cloak1526

false colour1531

visure1531

face1542

masquery?1544

show1547

gloss1548

glass1552

affectation1561

colourableness1571

fashion1571

personage?1571

ostentation1607

disguise1632

lustrementa1641

grimace1655

varnish1662

masquerade1674

guisea1677

whitewash1730

varnish1743

maya1789

vraisemblance1802

Japan1856

veneering1865

veneer1868

affectedness1873

candy coating1885

simulance1885

window dressing1903

society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Hinduism > systems of philosophy > [noun] > concepts in

pralaya1678

akasha1768

atman1785

karma1785

maya1789

samskara1827

samsara1845

satya1879

sadhana1898

marga1926

1789 Asiatick Researches 1 39 Checking all this illusion like Máyà, set thy heart on the foot of Brahme.

1789 Asiatick Researches 1 223 The word máyá, or delusion, has a more subtile and recondite sense in the Védánta philosophy.

1829 Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. 2 39 The notion that the versatile world is an illusion (máyá).

1878–9 J. Caird Introd. Philos. Relig. (1880) 339 Religion..teaches us that only by looking on the world and the lust thereof as ‘Maya’, as illusion, vanity, deceptive appearance, can we get near to God.

1924 D. M. Edwards Philos. Relig. 115 Brahmă or the Absolute becomes the only reality, and the finite world of ‘many’ objects is mere maya, illusion, a mere appearance in which the ‘one’ manifests itself.

1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard i. 66 Maya is Time, the illusion of the ego, the stuff of individual existence, the dream that separates us from a true perception of the whole.

1986 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics Autumn 333 The veil of the māyā, can be broken by a chance happening which reveals reality's inherent unintelligibility.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Mayaadj.n.²

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪə/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mayas.

Forms: 1800s– Maya, 1800s– Maye.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish maya.

Etymology: < Spanish maya, probably < Maya self-designation; compare French maya (1811 as adjective).The pronunciation of this word has been subject to considerable variation. Cent. Dict. (1890) gives the pronunciation as /ˈmɑːjɑː/. The word is first found in Webster in 1911 with the pronunciation /ˈmɑjɑ/; the pronunciation /ˈmaɪ(j)ə/ appears in the 1954 ed., and becomes the primary pronunciation in the 1961 ed., when a third variant /ˈmeɪ(j)ə/ is also recorded. O.E.D. Suppl. (1976) gives the pronunciation as (mā·yă, məi·(y)ă, mēⁱ·ă) /ˈmɑːjə/ /ˈmaɪ(j)ə/ /ˈmeɪə/. Dictionaries of the close of the 20th cent. generally give the pronunciation as Brit.

/ˈmʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪə/.

A. adj.

= Mayan adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > peoples of Central America > ancient prehistoric

Maya1818

Toltecan1839

Mayan1875

Toltec1875

Zapotec1934

1818 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. III. 300 MSS. on the Maya or Yucatan language.

1844 Southern Q. Rev. July 189 A Spaniard who had been captured by the Indians in a previous expedition, who had acquired the Maya language.

1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. 117 This Maya culture.

1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. viii. 203 The Maya language as a whole exhibits certain points of similarity to that of the Mixtec and Zapotec.

1928 T. Gann Discov. Central Amer. 206 In none of them [sc. cities] is the Maya arch found.

1974 National Geographic Nov. 661 In Guatemala's lofty highlands..Maya Indians dwell amid the cloud-ripping hulks of dead and dormant volcanoes.

B. n.²

1. A member of an Indian people inhabiting parts of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose ancient civilization developed in the 2nd millennium b.c. and was one of the greatest of the Western hemisphere before the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America > ancient or prehistoric

Toltec1787

Maya1834

Toltecan1839

Kekchi1888

Mayan1911

Olmec1962

Mesoamerican1964

Olmeca1976

Moche1988

1834 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1833 3 59 The Mayas, before the Spanish conquest, occupied the whole peninsula of Yucatan.

1877 A. S. Gatschet in W. W. Beach Indian Misc. 422 Such political bodies have frequently absorbed neighbouring communities engaged in similar pursuits, and turned them into powerful empirs, as in the case of the Aztecs, Mayes, Chibchans and Quichhuas, in the western hemisphere.

1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. xi. 282 Of the land system among the Maya we know very little.

1959 E. Tunis Indians 21/2 The Maya of Mexico were the only Indians who achieved a written language, with symbols that stood for individual words.

1991 Geographical Feb. 21/1 Today's descendants of the Aztec—the Mixtec or the Maya—no longer build pyramids or paint codices.

2. The language of the Maya people, which is a member of the Mayan language family. Also called Yucatec.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Mexican Penutian > Mayan

Maya1845

Mayan1962

1845 Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. 1 252 K has in the Maya a different sound from our c before a, o, u.

1847 (title) A Yucatecan grammar: translated from the Spanish into Maya, and abridged for the instruction of the native Indians.

1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. viii. 202 Both divisions of this people originally spoke Maya.

1928 T. Gann Discov. Central Amer. 89 The old man..knew no word of any language but Maya.

1992 R. Wright Stolen Continents (1993) 4 Central America has 6 million speakers of Maya.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	maya
释义	mayan.¹ Brit. /ˈmɑːjɑː/, /ˈmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈmɑˌjɑ/, /ˈmaɪə/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit māyā. Etymology: < Sanskrit māyā extraordinary or supernatural power (in early texts); illusion, unreality, deception, magic, etc. (in later texts). In Hindu mythology: illusion, magic; the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons. In Hindu and Buddhist philosophy: the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] hue971 glozea1300 showingc1300 coloura1325 illusionc1340 frontc1374 simulationc1380 visage1390 cheera1393 sign?a1425 countenance?c1425 study?c1430 cloak1526 false colour1531 visure1531 face1542 masquery?1544 show1547 gloss1548 glass1552 affectation1561 colourableness1571 fashion1571 personage?1571 ostentation1607 disguise1632 lustrementa1641 grimace1655 varnish1662 masquerade1674 guisea1677 whitewash1730 varnish1743 maya1789 vraisemblance1802 Japan1856 veneering1865 veneer1868 affectedness1873 candy coating1885 simulance1885 window dressing1903 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Hinduism > systems of philosophy > [noun] > concepts in pralaya1678 akasha1768 atman1785 karma1785 maya1789 samskara1827 samsara1845 satya1879 sadhana1898 marga1926 1789 Asiatick Researches 1 39 Checking all this illusion like Máyà, set thy heart on the foot of Brahme. 1789 Asiatick Researches 1 223 The word máyá, or delusion, has a more subtile and recondite sense in the Védánta philosophy. 1829 Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. 2 39 The notion that the versatile world is an illusion (máyá). 1878–9 J. Caird Introd. Philos. Relig. (1880) 339 Religion..teaches us that only by looking on the world and the lust thereof as ‘Maya’, as illusion, vanity, deceptive appearance, can we get near to God. 1924 D. M. Edwards Philos. Relig. 115 Brahmă or the Absolute becomes the only reality, and the finite world of ‘many’ objects is mere maya, illusion, a mere appearance in which the ‘one’ manifests itself. 1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard i. 66 Maya is Time, the illusion of the ego, the stuff of individual existence, the dream that separates us from a true perception of the whole. 1986 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics Autumn 333 The veil of the māyā, can be broken by a chance happening which reveals reality's inherent unintelligibility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Mayaadj.n.² Brit. /ˈmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈmaɪə/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mayas. Forms: 1800s– Maya, 1800s– Maye. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish maya. Etymology: < Spanish maya, probably < Maya self-designation; compare French maya (1811 as adjective).The pronunciation of this word has been subject to considerable variation. Cent. Dict. (1890) gives the pronunciation as /ˈmɑːjɑː/. The word is first found in Webster in 1911 with the pronunciation /ˈmɑjɑ/; the pronunciation /ˈmaɪ(j)ə/ appears in the 1954 ed., and becomes the primary pronunciation in the 1961 ed., when a third variant /ˈmeɪ(j)ə/ is also recorded. O.E.D. Suppl. (1976) gives the pronunciation as (mā·yă, məi·(y)ă, mēⁱ·ă) /ˈmɑːjə/ /ˈmaɪ(j)ə/ /ˈmeɪə/. Dictionaries of the close of the 20th cent. generally give the pronunciation as Brit. /ˈmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈmaɪə/. A. adj. = Mayan adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > peoples of Central America > ancient prehistoric Maya1818 Toltecan1839 Mayan1875 Toltec1875 Zapotec1934 1818 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. III. 300 MSS. on the Maya or Yucatan language. 1844 Southern Q. Rev. July 189 A Spaniard who had been captured by the Indians in a previous expedition, who had acquired the Maya language. 1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. 117 This Maya culture. 1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. viii. 203 The Maya language as a whole exhibits certain points of similarity to that of the Mixtec and Zapotec. 1928 T. Gann Discov. Central Amer. 206 In none of them [sc. cities] is the Maya arch found. 1974 National Geographic Nov. 661 In Guatemala's lofty highlands..Maya Indians dwell amid the cloud-ripping hulks of dead and dormant volcanoes. B. n.² 1. A member of an Indian people inhabiting parts of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose ancient civilization developed in the 2nd millennium b.c. and was one of the greatest of the Western hemisphere before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America > ancient or prehistoric Toltec1787 Maya1834 Toltecan1839 Kekchi1888 Mayan1911 Olmec1962 Mesoamerican1964 Olmeca1976 Moche1988 1834 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1833 3 59 The Mayas, before the Spanish conquest, occupied the whole peninsula of Yucatan. 1877 A. S. Gatschet in W. W. Beach Indian Misc. 422 Such political bodies have frequently absorbed neighbouring communities engaged in similar pursuits, and turned them into powerful empirs, as in the case of the Aztecs, Mayes, Chibchans and Quichhuas, in the western hemisphere. 1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. xi. 282 Of the land system among the Maya we know very little. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 21/2 The Maya of Mexico were the only Indians who achieved a written language, with symbols that stood for individual words. 1991 Geographical Feb. 21/1 Today's descendants of the Aztec—the Mixtec or the Maya—no longer build pyramids or paint codices. 2. The language of the Maya people, which is a member of the Mayan language family. Also called Yucatec. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Mexican Penutian > Mayan Maya1845 Mayan1962 1845 Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. 1 252 K has in the Maya a different sound from our c before a, o, u. 1847 (title) A Yucatecan grammar: translated from the Spanish into Maya, and abridged for the instruction of the native Indians. 1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. viii. 202 Both divisions of this people originally spoke Maya. 1928 T. Gann Discov. Central Amer. 89 The old man..knew no word of any language but Maya. 1992 R. Wright Stolen Continents (1993) 4 Central America has 6 million speakers of Maya. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1789adj.n.²1818
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