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maya | james |

As a verb maya

is .

As an adverb james is

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maya

English

Etymology 1

Self-designation of the Yucatec Mayas.

Proper noun

(wikipedia Maya) (en-proper noun)
  • 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.
  • See also

    * Aztec * Inca * Mesoamerica * Olmec * Toltec

    Etymology 2

    From Maria, ultimately from (etyl), and from Maia, from (etyl).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of modern usage.
  • * 1988 , Picasso, Creator and Destroyer , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671454463, page 240
  • When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la ConcepciĆ³n. "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)
  • 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
  • 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.'

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    james

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun) (Epistle of James)
  • (biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
  • One of two Apostles, .
  • * :
  • Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James' the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; ' James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
  • popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
  • * 1810 :
  • And Normans call me James' Fitz-' James . / Thus watch I o'er insulted laws, / Thus learn to right the injured cause.
  • * 1979 , Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, ISBN 0151239576, page 184:
  • Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.
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