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(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, published 2017, page 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.
“maya”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
From Proto-Philippine*máya(“rice bird, small bird found in rice fields”). Alternatively, from Sanskritमाया(māyā, “illusion”), according to Pardo de Tavera (1887).
The original term has become obsolete. However recent usage is due to clipping of mamaya.
Pardo de Tavera (1887) posits it to come from Sanskritसमय(samaya, “appointed or proper time, right moment for doing anything, opportunity, occasion, time, season”) with the first syllable mistaken as the sa- prefix, hence later elided. Compare Javaneseꦱꦼꦩꦪ(semaya, “to postpone; to delay”), Old Javanesesamaya, Indonesiansemaya. See also samaya.
“maya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 689
Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 827.