Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

  • Master of Arts, a degree award
  • Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
  • Menlo-Atherton High School, a public high school in Atherton, California
  • Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Monument Academy, a charter school in El Paso county, Colordo

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), an album by Lena Zavaroni (1974)
  • Massive Attack, 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, a flattened me
  • Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands
  • Mā (musician), New Zealand songwriter and rapper

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 and Pa Kettle, a 1940s and 1950s comic film character
  • Ma Perkins, an American radio soap opera (1932-1960)
  • The Ma family, in the 2014 South Korean television series 4 Legendary Witches

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Ma (film), a horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
  • Ma (negative space), a Japanese concept of negative space
  • Memory Alpha, a Star Trek-oriented wiki
  • Miss America, a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant
  • MA (journal), a Hungarian art magazine

Businesses and organizations

  • Malév Hungarian Airlines (IATA designator: MA)
  • Mastercard (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
  • Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as FlyMontserrat
  • Motorcycling Australia
  • Motorsport Australia
  • Orange Movement (Movimento Arancione), an Italian political party
  • Market America, a product brokerage and internet marketing company
  • Museums Association, UK
  • Musicians Australia, a trade union run by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

People

  • Ma, an informal synonym for mother
  • Ma (surname) (马/馬), a common Chinese family name
  • Ma (surname 麻), a less common Chinese surname
  • Ma Barker (1873–1935), American criminal and mother of criminals
  • Ma Beland (1870–1952), American drug trafficker
  • Miriam A. Ferguson (1875–1961), twice governor of Texas
  • Harriet Pullen (1860–1947), American entrepreneur and hotelier
  • Ma Rainey, stage name of American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886–1939)
  • Ma Anand Sheela, Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders
  • (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs#Maria
  • Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
  • Meshwesh, an ancient Libyan tribe

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
  • Ma (negative space), a Japanese reading of a Sino-Japanese character
  • Ma language, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Ma language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea

Mythology

  • Ma (Sumerian mythology), a Sumerian word to regard the Primordial Land
  • 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
  • Ma, a country code for Morocco
  • .ma, the Internet domain for Morocco
  • MA, a country code of Madagascar
  • MA, a postal code for Maranhão, Brazil
  • MA, a subdivision code for Maluku (province), Indonesia
  • MA, a U.S. state abbreviated for Massachusetts

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry

  • Methyl anthranilate, used as a bird repellent
  • Mesaconitine a toxin from plants

Health and medicine

  • MA (chemotherapy) is a chemotherapy regimen
  • Marijuana Anonymous, a group recovery program
  • Medical assistant, a type of health care worker
  • Metabolic acidosis, a medical condition characterized by increased acid production
  • Metabolic alkalosis, a medical condition with an elevated pH level

Mathematics

  • MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol
  • Martin's axiom, an axiom in mathematical logic
  • Moving-average model (MA), in statistics

Measurements

  • Mach number (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
  • Megaannum (Ma), one million years
  • Megaampere (MA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
  • Milliampere (mA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere

Other uses in science and technology

  • Mechanical advantage (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
  • Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys
  • Ford MA, a 2002 concept car
  • Nissan MA engine, an automotive engine introduced in 1982

Other uses

  • Ma clique, a group of warlords from 1919 until 1928
  • Martial arts, systems for combat
  • Master-at-arms (United States Navy), an enlisted rating in the US Navy
  • Middle Ages, a period of European history

See also

  • "Mature audience", a U.S. television rating system category, abbreviated TV-MA
  • Maa (disambiguation)