Yama (disambiguation)

Yama is the Hindu deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld.

Yama may also refer to:

In Japanese, "Yama" (山 or やま) means "mountain". For this reason, there are many place names with "-yama" in Japan. This word has no linguistic relationship to "Yama" in Hinduism or Buddhism.

Yama may also refer to:

Places

Yama, Burkina Faso
Yama, Missouri, United States
Yama District, Fukushima, Japan
Yama (river), Magadan Oblast, Russia
Yama, former name of Kingisepp, Russia
Yama, former name of Siversk, Ukraine
The Pit (memorial) (Belarusian: Яма Yama), a Holocaust memorial at the Minsk Ghetto, Belarus

People

Anup Kumar Yama (born 1984), Indian roller skate athlete
Conrad Yama (1919–2010), American actor
Gul Ahmmad Yama, Afghan presidential candidate
Joam Yama (c. 1566 – 1633), Japanese Jesuit cleric
Michael Yama (died 2020), American actor
Mihoko Yama (born 1949), Japanese high jumper
Peter Yama (born 1955), Papua New Guinean politician
Vladyslav Yama (born 1982), Ukrainian dancer
Yamamotoyama Ryūta, or Yama, Japanese sumo wrestler
Yama, Japanese singer

Other uses

Yāma, one of the six heavenly worlds in Buddhism
Yamá, a trade language used by some Native American tribes around the Gulf of Mexico
Yamas, ethical rules in Hinduism and Yoga
Yama (album), by Art Farmer with Joe Henderson, 1979
Yama: The Pit, a novel by Alexander Kuprin published in installments 1909–1915
Yama, a Linux Security Module
Yama, a song by Armin van Buuren & Vini Vici, 2021

Places

People

Other uses

See also