different between language vs maya

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ng?gw?j, IPA^(key): /?læ??w?d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [?le???w?d??]
• Hyphenation: lan?guage

Etymology 1

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ?eþ?ode.

Noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

1. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
   • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 ?ISBN, page 240:

     Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

4. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
   • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:

     A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
   • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:

     A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.

   • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:

     Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
   • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94

     In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Hope

     Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]

8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

9. (uncountable) Profanity.

Synonyms

• (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
• (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
• (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
• (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording

Hypernyms

• medium

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Languages

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

   • Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

See also

• bilingual
• lexis
• linguistics
• multilingual
• term
• trilingual
• word

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

References

• language at OneLook Dictionary Search
• language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• langage
• langaige
• languaige

Etymology

From Old French language.

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue

Descendants

• French: langage
  • Haitian Creole: langaj
    • ? English: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??ad???/

Noun

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue, lingue

Descendants

• ? Middle English: language
  • English: language
• Middle French: language
  • French: langage
    • Haitian Creole: langaj
      • ? English: langaj
    • Mauritian Creole: langaz
• ? Old Spanish: lenguage

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (m?y?).

Noun

maya (uncountable)

1. (Hindu mythology) Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods.
2. (Hinduism, Buddhism) The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality.
   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 58:

     Shankara prescribed meditative reflection, through which each individual could pierce the veil of maya and come to recognize the identity between his or her essence and the universal spirit.

Anagrams

• Amya, Ayam, Yama, amay

Aymara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ja/

Numeral

maya (mä)

1. one

   Mä utanïtwa.

   I have one house.

Derived terms

• mayiri
• mapita

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Persian ????? (mâye).

Noun

maya (definite accusative mayan?, plural mayalar)

1. capital (money and wealth)

   Synonyms: s?rmay?, kapital

2. leaven, ferment, barm
3. fetus

   Synonyms: döl, rü?eym

4. source, origin, basis

   Synonyms: ?sas, ?sil, kök

Etymology 2

Noun

maya (definite accusative mayan?, plural mayalar)

1. female camel

Declension

Balinese

Romanization

maya

1. Romanization of ???
2. Romanization of ????

Bikol Central

Noun

maya

1. sparrow

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?maja/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ma?ya

Noun

maya

1. any bird of the genus Lonchura
2. the chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
3. generically, any small, nondescript bird
4. (slang) a bisexual

Adjective

maya

1. (slang) bisexual; sexually attracted to both men and women

Pronunciation 2

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ma?ja?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: ba?ga

Adjective

maya

1. cheerful
2. jubilant

Verb

maya

1. to be jubilant

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:maya.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i?j?/, [?m?i?j(?)?]
• Homophones: maija, Maija
• Syllabification: ma?ya

Noun

maya

1. Maya, Mayan (person)

Declension

Synonyms

• mayaintiaani

Derived terms

• mayaintiaani
• mayakieli
• mayakulttuuri

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ja

Adjective

maya (plural mayas)

1. Mayan (relating to the Mayans)
2. Mayan (relating to the Mayan language)

Usage notes

• The plural of maya may either be mayas or maya.

Further reading

• “maya” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hausa

Noun

m??y? m (possessed form m??yan)

1. weevil

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay maya, from Pali maya, from Sanskrit ???? (m?y?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ja/
• Hyphenation: ma?ya

Adjective

maya

1. simulated
2. unreal
3. virtual

Derived terms

• kemayaan
• memayakan

Further reading

• “maya” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Anagrams

• ayam

Malay

Etymology

From Pali maya, from Sanskrit ???? (m?y?).

Adjective

maya (Jawi spelling ????, plural maya-maya)

1. illusionary
2. virtual

Derived terms

• wargamaya

Further reading

• “maya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Northern Catanduanes Bicolano

Noun

maya

1. sparrow

Portuguese

Noun

maya m, f (plural mayas)

1. Obsolete spelling of maia

Adjective

maya m or f (plural mayas, not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of maia

Spanish

Etymology 1

Originally from Yucatec Maya [Term?].

Adjective

maya (plural mayas)

1. Mayan (from Maya)

Noun

maya m or f (plural mayas)

1. Mayan (person)
2. Mayan (language)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the verb mayar (“to miaow”).

Verb

maya

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of mayar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mayar.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

maya (n class, plural maya)

1. anger

   Synonym: chuki

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maja/, [?maj?]
• Hyphenation: ma?ya

Noun

maya (Baybayin spelling ??)

1. The chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
2. sparrow
3. the Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (maya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?j?]
• Hyphenation: ma?ya

Noun

maya (definite accusative mayay?, plural mayalar)

1. yeast (to make bread; fungi)
2. mountain name in Balkans (clarification of this definition is needed)
3. female camel

   Antonyms: lök, ner

Declension

Adjective

maya

1. nature