(复同单或Mayas)
1
- a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán and elsewhere in Central America玛雅人。
2
- mass noun the language of this people, still spoken by about half a million people玛雅语。
- of or relating to this people or their language（与）玛雅人（有关）的; （与）玛雅语（有关）的。
The Maya civilization developed over an extensive area of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize from the 2nd millennium BC, reaching its peak c.300-c.900 AD. Its remains include stone temples built on pyramids and ornamented with sculptures. The Mayas had a cumbersome system of pictorial writing and an extremely accurate calendar system.
词源
the name in Maya.