Yama (disambiguation)

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Yama is the lord of death in vedic mythology.

• Yama (Hinduism), in the context of Hinduism
• Yama (East Asia), in the context of East Asian mythology

Yama may also refer to:

Places

• Yama, Burkina Faso, a village in central Burkina Faso
• Yama, Missouri, a community in the United States
• Yama District, Fukushima, an administrative district in Japan
• Yama, a former name of the town Kingisepp in Russia
• The Pit (memorial) (in Russian: Yama), a Holocaust memorial at the location of the Minsk Ghetto in nowadays Belarus

Other uses

• Yamas, codes of conduct described in various Hindu scriptures
• Yama (album), a 1979 album by Art Farmer with Joe Henderson
• Yamá, a trade language used by some Native American tribes around the Gulf of Mexico
• Gul Ahmmad Yama, a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections
• Yama, the Japanese word for mountain
• Yama security module, a security module for the Linux kernel

See also

• Yamma (disambiguation)
• Yamna (disambiguation)
• Yam (disambiguation)