資料來源 : pyDict
馬雅人的,馬雅語的馬雅人,馬雅語
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Mayan \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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Mayan
n 1: 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" [syn: {Maya}]
2: a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan
peoples [syn: {Maya}, {Mayan language}]