Yama (disambiguation)

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

Yama may also refer to:

• Yama (Buddhism)
• Yama in world religions

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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Yama
• All pages with titles containing Yama
• Yamma (disambiguation)
• Yamna (disambiguation)
• Yam (disambiguation)
• Yami (disambiguation)
• Yamuna (disambiguation)
• King of Hell (disambiguation)
• Yanwang (disambiguation)
• Yamudiki Mogudu (disambiguation)