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Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

Master of Arts, a degree award

Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin), an academic status awarded to holders of a Bachelors of Arts degree at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, or the University of Dublin (Trinity College)

Master of Arts (Scottish Ancient universities), a first, undergraduate honours degree at the ancient universities of Scotland

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

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

Ma Junior, Piccolo's alias in the 23rd Tenkaichi Budōkai

Albums

Ma (Anjan Dutt album) (1998)

Ma (Rare Earth album) (1973)

Ma (Sagarika album) (1998)

Ma (Zubeen Garg album) (2019)

Ma (Devendra Banhart album) (2019)

Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me), by Lena Zavaroni (1974)

Performers

Massive Attack, a British trip hop band

Mā (musician), New Zealand songwriter and rapper

Other uses in music

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

Other uses in arts and entertainment

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

Ma (2015 film), a drama film written and directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall

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

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

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, 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

Names

Ma, an informal synonym for mother

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

Ma (surname 麻), a less common Chinese surname

(Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs#Maria

Groups

Ma clique, a group of warlords from 1919 until 1928

Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group

Meshwesh, an ancient Libyan tribe

Individuals

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

Places

Ma River, a river in Vietnam and Laos

Ma, Tibet, a village

Morocco (country code "Ma").ma, the Internet domain for Morocco

Madagascar (country code "MA")

Maranhão, Brazil (postal code "MA")

Maluku (province), Indonesia (subdivision code "MA")

Massachusetts, a US state (postal abbreviation "MA")

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry

Methyl anthranilate, used as a bird repellent

Mesaconitine, a toxin from plants

Health and medicine

MA (chemotherapy), 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.ma, the Internet domain for Morocco

Mechanical advantage, mechanical multiplier of input force

Mechanical alloying, a technique to produce alloys

Ford MA, a 2002 concept car

Nissan MA engine, an automotive engine introduced in 1982

Other uses

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