Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...

, a degree award *

Marin Academy Marin Academy (familiarly known as MA) is a private school, private college preparatory high school in San Rafael, California. Located on the campus that for decades housed the San Rafael Military Academy prior to its closure, Marin Academy was ...

, a high school in San Rafael, California *

Menlo-Atherton High School Menlo-Atherton High School (known as M-A to locals) is a four-year public high school secondary school located in Atherton, California. Menlo-Atherton is part of the Sequoia Union High School District.

, a public high school in Atherton, California *

Minnehaha Academy Minnehaha Academy (often abbreviated MA) is a Christian private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, for students in preschool through 12th grade, and established in 1913. There are two campuses, the South Campus for preschool t ...

, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Ma'' (Anjan Dutt album) (1998) * ''Ma'' (Rare Earth album) (1973) * ''Ma'' (Sagarika album) (1998) * ''Ma'' (Zubeen Garg album) (2019) * '' Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me)'', 1974 debut album of Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni *

Massive Attack Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol, England, by Robert Del Naja, Robert "3D" Del Naja, Daddy G, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Tricky (musician), Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew Vowles, Andrew "Mushroom" ...

, a British trip hop band * In music instructions, "but", especially in the phrase ''ma non troppo'' (see Glossary of musical terminology#M) * In

tonic sol-fa Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Anna Glover (1786–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems. It u ...

, a flattened me *

Encyclopaedia Metallum Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or abbreviated as MA) is an online encyclopedia based upon musical artists who predominantly perform heavy metal music along with its various sub-genres ...

: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands

Fictional characters

* Ma (''The Lion King''), a main character in the animated film ''Lion King 1½'' * Ma Beagle, in the Donald Duck universe * Ma Hunkel, a DC Comics character * Ma Kettle, a 1940s and 1950s comic film character * The protagonist of ''

Ma Perkins ''Ma Perkins'' (sometimes called ''Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins'') is an American radio soap opera that was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. It was also broadcast in Canada, and Radio Luxembourg carried it in Europe. T ...

'', an American radio soap opera which aired from 1932 to 1960 * The Ma family, in the 2014 South Korean television series '' 4 Legendary Witches''

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Ma'' (2019 film), a horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans *

Ma (negative space) is a Japanese concept of negative space, and a Japanese reading of the Sino-Japanese character . ''Ma'' in Japanese culture In modern interpretations of traditional Japanese arts and culture, is an artistic interpretation of an empty spa ...

, a word of Japanese origin used in art and design *

Memory Alpha Memory Alpha is a wiki encyclopedia for topics related to the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe. Created by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson, it uses the wiki model and is hosted by Fandom on the MediaWiki software. , Memory Alpha contains over 56 ...

, a ''Star Trek''-oriented wiki *

Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: ''Priva ...

, a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant * ''MA'' (journal), a Hungarian art magazine

Businesses and organizations

Malév Hungarian Airlines MALÉV Ltd. (), which did business as MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (, abbreviated ''MALÉV'', ), was the flag carrier of Hungary from 1946 until 2012. Its head office was in Budapest, with its main hub at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airpor ...

(IATA designator: MA) * Mastercard (NYSE stock symbol: MA) * Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as

FlyMontserrat Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as FlyMontserrat, is an airline with its headquarters at John A. Osborne Airport in Gerald's, Montserrat. The airline flies from Montserrat to and from Antigua as well as from and to Nevis, with their ...

Motorcycling Australia Motorcycling Australia is the governing body for motorcycle racing in Australia, covering road racing, motocross, Motorcycle trials, trials, supercross, Race track#Surfaces, dirt track, supermoto and Motorcycle speedway, speedway. Motorcycling ...

Motorsport Australia Motorsport Australia, formerly the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS), is the nationally recognised governing and sanctioning body for four-wheeled motorsport Motorsport or motor sport are sporting events, competitions and relate ...

Orange Movement The Orange Movement (''Movimento Arancione'', MA) was a list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. It was launched on 12 December 2012 by Luigi de Magistris (politician), Luigi de Magistris, mayor of Naples and until then member ...

(''Movimento Arancione''), an Italian political party *

Market America Market America is a multi-level marketing company founded in 1992 by JR and Loren Ridinger. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the company employed around 800 people as of 2016. The products offered by the company include household cle ...

, a product brokerage and internet marketing company *

Museums Association The Museums Association (MA) is a professional membership organisation based in London for museum, gallery and heritage professionals and organisations of the United Kingdom. It also offers international membership. History The association w ...

, UK * Musicians Australia, a trade union run by the

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) is the Australian trade union and professional organisation which covers the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries. Its Musicians section consists of the SOMA (Symphony Orchestra Musi ...

People

* Ma, an informal synonym for

mother A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ges ...

Ma (surname) Ma () is a Chinese family name. The surname literally means "horse". As of 2006, it ranks as the 14th most common Chinese surname in mainland China. In 2019 it was the 13th most common surname in mainland China. A 2013 study found it to be the 13th ...

(马/馬), a common Chinese family name * Ma (surname 麻), a less common Chinese surname *

Ma Barker Kate Barker (born Arizona Donnie Clark; October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935), better known as Ma Barker (and sometimes known as Arizona Barker and Arrie Barker), was the mother of several American criminals who ran the Barker–Karpis Gang ...

(1873–1935), American criminal and mother of criminals * Ma Beland (1870–1952), American drug trafficker * Miriam A. Ferguson (1875–1961), nicknamed "Ma", American politician, twice governor of Texas and first female governor of Texas * Harriet Pullen (1860–1947), American entrepreneur and hotelier nicknamed "Ma" *

Ma Rainey Gertrude "Ma" Rainey ( Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. Dubbed the " Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of ...

, stage name of early American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886–1939) * Ma Anand Sheela, Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders * Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs * Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group *

Meshwesh The Meshwesh (often abbreviated in ancient Egyptian as Ma) was an ancient Libyan tribe, of Berber origin along with other groups like Libu and Tehenu/Tjemehu, and also some of the Sea Peoples. Early records of the Meshwesh date back to the Eight ...

(Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica

Language

* Ma (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign * Ma (Indic), an Indic consonant * Ma (Javanese) (ꦩ), a letter in the Javanese script * Ma (kana) (ま, マ), a Japanese kana *

, a Japanese reading of a Sino-Japanese character *

Ma language Ma, also known as ''A-Ma-Lo'', ''Amadi'', ''Madi'', ''Madyo,'' is a Ubangian language spoken in Haut-Uele Province, the Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, ...

, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo * Ma language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea

Mythology

* Ma (Sumerian mythology), in Sumerian mythology, that from which the "primeval land" was formed * Ma (goddess), an Anatolian goddess * Ma, a mythohistoric entrepreneur for whom the Malaysian town of Marang, Terengganu was purportedly named

Places

* Ma River, a river in Vietnam and Laos * Ma, Tibet, a village and township in Tibet *

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code) ** .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco *

FIPS 10-4 The Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS 10-4 standard, ''Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions'', was a list of two-letter country codes that were used by the U.S. Government ...

country code of

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

Maranhão Maranhão () is a States of Brazil, state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of and it is divided into 217 municipalities. Clockwise from north, it ...

, a state of Brazil, postal code MA *

Maluku (province) Maluku is located in Eastern Indonesia and geographically located in West-Melanesia, between Sulawesi and Western New Guinea, and comprises the central and southern regions of the Maluku Islands. It is directly adjacent to North Maluku, Southw ...

, a province of Indonesia (ISO 3166-2:ID subdivisions) *

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

, state abbreviation MA, one of the United States

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry

* Methyl anthranilate, used as a bird repellent * Minor actinides, the actinide elements in used nuclear fuel other than uranium and plutonium * Monomethyl aniline, a solvent, chemical intermediate, and gasoline additive * Methylammonium (CH₃NH₃), e.g., in methylammonium lead halides

Health and medicine

* MA (chemotherapy) is an acronym for Mitoxantrone + standard-dose Ara-C (cytarabine) chemotherapy regimen *

Marijuana Anonymous Marijuana Anonymous (MA) founded in 1989 is an organization and twelve-step program for people with common desire to maintain abstinence from marijuana. History Marijuana Anonymous (MA) formed in June 1989 to address compulsive use of cannabis ...

, a group recovery program aimed at marijuana addiction *

Marketing authorisation Marketing authorisation is the process of reviewing and assessing the evidence to support a medicinal product, such as a drug, in relation to its marketing, finalised by granting of a licence to be sold. This process is performed within a legal f ...

, an authorisation granted by a regulatory authority to market a new drug * Medical assistant, a type of health care worker *

Metabolic acidosis Metabolic acidosis is a serious electrolyte disorder characterized by an imbalance in the body's acid-base balance. Metabolic acidosis has three main root causes: increased acid production, loss of bicarbonate, and a reduced ability of the kidn ...

, a medical condition in which the pH of body is decreased beyond the normal range *

Metabolic alkalosis Metabolic alkalosis is an acid-base disorder in which the pH of tissue is elevated beyond the normal range (7.35–7.45). This is the result of decreased hydrogen ion concentration, leading to increased bicarbonate (), or alternatively a dire ...

, a medical condition in which the pH of body is elevated beyond the normal range *

Methamphetamine Methamphetamine (contracted from ) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug use, recreational or Performance-enhancing substance, performance-enhancing drug and less commonly as a secon ...

, a psychostimulant

Mathematics

* MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol *

Martin's axiom In the mathematical field of set theory, Martin's axiom, introduced by Donald A. Martin and Robert M. Solovay, is a statement that is independent of the usual axioms of ZFC set theory. It is implied by the continuum hypothesis, but it is consi ...

, an axiom in mathematical logic * Moving-average model (MA), in statistics

Measurements

Mach number The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, (; ) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound. It is named after the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erns ...

(Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound * Megaampere (MA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere *

Megaannum A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more ...

(Ma), one million years * Milliampere (mA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere *

Myr Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds. Usage Myr is in common use in fields such as Earth science and cosmology. Myr is also used w ...

, Mya, or Ma, meaning "million years ago"; (NB: broadly equivalent to "Megaannum (Ma)", see above)

Other uses in science and technology

Mechanical advantage Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system. The device trades off input forces against movement to obtain a desired amplification in the output force. The model for ...

(MA), mechanical multiplier of input force * Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys *

Marketing automation Marketing automation refers to software platforms and technologies designed for marketing departments and organizations to automate repetitive tasks and consolidate multi-channel (email, SMS, chatbot, social media) interactions, tracking and ...

(MA), technology designed to automate marketing-related tasks * Ma, a type of interface in an

IP Multimedia Subsystem The IP Multimedia Subsystem or IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS) is a standardised architectural framework for delivering IP multimedia services. Historically, mobile phones have provided voice call services over a circuit-switched-sty ...

* Ford MA, a 2002 concept car * Nissan MA engine, an automotive engine introduced in 1982

Other uses

Ma clique The Ma clique or Ma family warlords is a collective name for a group of Hui (Muslim Chinese) warlords in Northwestern China who ruled the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia for 10 years from 1919 until 1928. Following the colla ...

, a group of warlords from 1919 until 1928 *

Martial arts Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; combat sport, competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; ...

* Master-at-arms (United States Navy) (MA), an enlisted rating in the US Navy *

Metropolitan area A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban area, urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share Industry (economics), industries, commercial areas, Transport infrastructure, transport network ...

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

, a period of European history * Motorcycle accident *