Maya vs Shy - What's the difference?
maya | shy |
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
Easily frightened; timid.
* Jonathan Swift
Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
* Arbuthnot
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
* Boyle
* Sir H. Wotton
Short, insufficient or less than.
Embarrassed.
To avoid due to timidness or caution.
To jump back in fear.
to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling
An act of throwing.
* Punch
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 55:
A place for throwing.
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
As verbs the difference between maya and shy
is that maya is while shy is to avoid due to timidness or caution.As an adjective shy is
easily frightened; timid.As a noun shy is
an act of throwing.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 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)- 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
* ----shy
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The horses of the army were no longer shy , but would come up to my very feet without starting.
- He is very shy with strangers.
- What makes you so shy , my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
- I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.
- Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
- By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
- It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
See also
* bashful * reserved * timid * demure * coyUsage notes
* Often used in combination with a noun to produce an adjective or adjectival phrase. * Adjectives are usually applicable to animals (leash-shy'' "shy of leashes" or ''head shy "shy of contact around the head" (of horses)) or to children.Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* brazen * bold * audaciousDerived terms
(terms derived using shy as suffix) * -shy * bird-shy * boy-shy * car-shy * cat-shy * camera-shy * cover-shy * girl-shy * gun-shy * hand-shy * man-shy * mouse-shy * noise-shy * people-shy * water-shy * woman-shy * work-shyVerb
- I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand.
- The horse shied''' away from the rider, which startled him so much he '''shied away from the horse.
- to shy''' a stone; to '''shy a slipper
Noun
(shies)- (Thackeray)
- If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
- The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy .
- coconut shy