MAYAN

Maya, Mayan, Mayan language

(noun) a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas

Mayan, Maya

(noun) a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; “Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

Mayan (not comparable)

Of or relating to the Maya people of Central America.

Noun

Mayan (plural Mayans)

A Mayan person.

Proper noun

Mayan

A Mayan language.

Anagrams

• Yaman, many a

Source: Wiktionary

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Ma"yan, a.

1. Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.

2. Of or pertaining to the Mayas.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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