MA

MA is an abbreviation and Ma may be an abbreviation, a word, or a Chinese or Taiwanese name. It may refer to:

People

 * Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan.
 * Ma Jun, a Chinese environmentalist, non-fiction writer and journalist.
 * Ma Jun, a Chinese mechanical engineer and government official during the Three Kingdoms era of China.
 * Ma (surname), a common Chinese family name

In academia

 * Master of Arts (postgraduate) (MA), academic degree
 * Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin) (MA), academic degree of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin
 * Master of Arts (Scotland) (MA), academic degree in Scotland
 * Marin Academy (MA), high school in San Rafael, California
 * Minnehaha Academy (MA), private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * Museums Association (MA), UK

In science and technology

 * mya (unit), sometimes written as Ma, means "millions of years ago" or megaannum.
 * .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
 * Mach number (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
 * Megaannum (Ma), one million (1,000,000) years
 * Mechanical advantage (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
 * Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys.
 * Medical assistant (MA), a type of health care worker
 * Methyl anthranilate (MA), a bird repellent
 * Milliampere (mA), a unit of electrical current
 * Moving average model (MA(q)), statistics
 * MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol
 * Martin's axiom, an axiom in mathematical logic
 * a type of interface (Ma) in an IP Multimedia Subsystem

In geography

 * Ma River, river in Asia, running through Vietnam and Laos
 * Madagascar (MA), FIPS 10-4 country code
 * Maranhão (BR-MA), part of the ISO 3166-2:BR geocode for the Brazilian state
 * Massachusetts (MA), United States postal abbreviations for the state
 * Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica
 * Metropolitan area (MA), a qualifying term, e.g. "Tokyo MA"
 * Morocco (MA), ISO 3166 country code
 * Ma is the mythohistoric entrepreneur for whom, tradition holds, Marang, Terengganu was denoted

In myth and culture

 * Ma people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
 * Ma (Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
 * Ma (myth), in Sumerian mythology that from which the "primeval land" was formed

In other uses

 * "MA15+", an Australian film and video game classification meaning "Not suitable for under 15s"
 * Mature audience is a U.S. television rating system category abbreviated as TV-MA
 * Memory Alpha (MA), a Star Trek-oriented wiki
 * Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (MA), a website devoted to heavy metal bands
 * Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
 * Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
 * Ma (negative space), a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
 * Methamphetamine, a psychostimulant
 * Mother, "Ma" used as a synonym
 * Marijuana Anonymous (MA), a group recovery program aimed at marijuana addiction
 * Martial arts (MA), only used in combining forms such as MMA or MCMAP
 * Malév Hungarian Airlines (MA), IATA airline designator
 * MasterCard, NYSE stock symbol
 * Marvellous attack, a term used in StepMania game, it means to get only Marvellous (the highest) rankings for each step.
 * Motorcycling Australia