Maya vs Huipil - What's the difference?
maya | huipil |
A member of a Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala in the 4th to 10th centuries.
A descendant of these people.
Any of the Mayan languages, such as and Yucatec.
of modern usage.
* 1988 , Picasso, Creator and Destroyer , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671454463, page 240
In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
used in India.
* 1993 , A Suitable Boy , Phoenix House, ISBN 1897580207, page 891
A traditional blouse worn by the women of various indigenous peoples of Central America including the Maya and Zapotec, or the textile from which such a garment is made.
*{{quote-news, 1988, February 5, Salena Fuller, On Exhibit: modern art of the ancient Maya, Chicago Reader
, passage=A woman weaves her huipil after praying to the saints, who are believed to have taught women to weave "in the beginning of time. }}
As a verb maya
is .As a noun huipil is
a traditional blouse worn by the women of various indigenous peoples of central america including the maya and zapotec, or the textile from which such a garment is made.maya
English
Etymology 1
Self-designation of the Yucatec Mayas.Proper noun
(wikipedia Maya) (en-proper noun)See also
* Aztec * Inca * Mesoamerica * Olmec * ToltecExternal links
Ethnologue report on the Maya languages
Etymology 2
From Maria, ultimately from (etyl), and from Maia, from (etyl).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la Concepción. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, that con'' in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound like Maya'''. "'''Maya'''!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." So '''Maya''' it was from then on - ' Maya Walter.
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya'. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter ' Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities.
- - - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'
Anagrams
* ----huipil
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Noun
(huipiles)citation
