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spain | maya |

As verbs the difference between spain and maya

is that spain is (lb) while maya is .

spain

English

(wikipedia Spain)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España).
  • * 1865 , James Stuart Laurie (editor), Manual of Elementary Geography , page 40
    • The mountains of Spain consist of parallel ranges, running from east to west
  • * 1999 , Stephen P. Reyna, "The Force of Two Logics", in'' S. P. Reyna & R. E. Downs (editors), ''Deadly Developments: Capitalism, states and war'' (''War and Scoiety , volume 5), page 34
    • Spain fought with France constantly from 1494 through the 1540s, especially over Italy.

    Hyponyms

    * (country) Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castile, Catalonia, Galicia, Valencia

    Related terms

    * Hispanic * Spaniard * Spanish

    See also

    * * *

    Anagrams

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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

    External links

    Ethnologue report on the Maya languages

    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 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)
  • 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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