MA

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

Arts and entertainment

Music

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

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 (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
• 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

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

• 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

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

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")
• 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), 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)