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

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