माया

From Sanskrit माया (māyā́).

• IPA^(key): /mɑː.jɑː/

माया • (māyā) f (Urdu spelling مایا‎)

1. illusion, deceit
2. (Hinduism) maya, the veil on reality

   यह संसार माया है। ― yah sansār māyā hai. ― This world is an illusion.

3. (Hinduism) maya, divine power

   ईश्वर की माया अनंत है। ― īśvar kī māyā anant hai. ― The divine power of God is infinite.

• मायी (māyī)

• Platts, John T. (1884), “माया”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.

माया f

1. fraud
2. deceit
3. magic
4. jugglery

From √म (ma, “measure, magic, binding, fettering”)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɑː.jɑ́ː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.jɑː/

माया • (māyā́) f

1. (Vedic) art, wisdom, inhuman or supernatural power
2. (Vedic, Classical Sanskrit) illusion, deception, trickery, demonic magic
   • Kālīdāsa, Raghuvaṃśa 2.62

     मया मायां उद्भाव्या परीक्षितः असि

     mayā māyāṃ udbhāvyā parīkṣitaḥ asi

     I have examined you by creating an illusion

3. an unreal or illusory image, phantom, apparition
4. (Buddhism) duplicity, one of the 24 minor evil passions
5. (philosophy) illusion
6. (Shaivism) one of the 4 pāśas (“snares”) which entangle the soul
7. (Vaishnavism) one of the 9 shaktis (“energies”) of Vishnu
8. compassion, sympathy
9. Operculina turpethum (Convolvulus turpethum)
10. (poetry) name of two poetic meters

• Pali: māyā
• → English: maya
• → Hindi: माया (māyā)
• → Tamil: மாயை (māyai)
• → Thai: มายา (maa-yaa)

माया • (māyā́) f

1. The name of several goddesses (Illusion personified, Lakshmi)
2. A female given name, equivalent to English Maya (famously held by the mother of the Buddha)
3. A city.
4. (poetry, in the dual, māye indrasya) name of 2 sāmans

• → English: Maya

• Monier Williams (1899), “माया”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 811/1-2.