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Places

Mata, Iran Mata ( fa, مطاع, also Romanized as Maţā‘ and Matā; also known as Mogh Matā) is a village in Esmaili Rural District, Esmaili District, Anbarabad County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 79, in 16 families. Re ...

, a village in Kerman Province, Iran *

Mata, Israel Mata ( he, מַטָּע, ''lit.'' Grove) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Jerusalem corridor near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology "The name ''mata ...

, a Moshav in the Judaean Mountains, south-west of Jerusalem, not far from Beit Shemesh *

Mata, Rio Grande do Sul Mata is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Paleontology The city of Mata has large deposits of petrified trees. Museum of the city that have fossils: #Museum Daniel Cargnin. #Palaeobotanical Garden in Ma ...

, town in Brazil *

Mata Island The Belcher Islands ( iu, script=latn, ᓴᓪᓚᔪᒐᐃᑦ, Sanikiluaq) are an archipelago in the southeast part of Hudson Bay near the centre of the Nastapoka arc. The Belcher Islands are spread out over almost . Administratively, they belong ...

, in the Hudson Bay of Nunavut, Canada *

Mata River The Mata River is a river of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It flows northeast from the slopes of Mount Arowhana in the Raukumara Range to join with the Tapuaeroa River close to the settlement of Ruatoria, in doing so forming ...

, of the East Coast of North Island, New Zealand * Mata,

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

* Mata, in Castelo Branco, Portugal * Mata, Dianbai County (马踏镇), town in Guangdong, China

People

Mata (surname) Mata, sometimes Matta, is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. It may refer to: * Bryan Mata (born 1999), Venezuelan baseball player * Clinton Mata (born 1992), Angolan footballer * Eduardo Mata (1942–1995), Mexican conductor and composer * Ernest ...

, for people with the surname Mata *

Mata Amritanandamayi Mātā Amritānandamayī Devī (born Sudhamani Idamannel; 27 September 1953), often known as Amma ("Mother"), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging saint' by her followers. In 2018, she w ...

(born 1953), Hindu spiritual leader and guru *

Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by ...

(1876–1917), stage name of exotic dancer, courtesan and spy Margaretha Zelle *

Mata Sundari Mātā Sundarī ( pa, ਮਾਤਾ ਸੁੰਦਰੀ) was the daughter of Ram Sarana, a Punjabi Soni Kumarāv Khatri of Bijwara Soni - in present-day Hoshiārpur district. She was the wife of Guru Gobind Singh. After the martyrdom of her child, ...

Mata Jito Mātā Jīto (1673 – 5 December 1700, Gurmukhi: ਮਾਤਾ ਜੀਤੋ, Shahmukhi: ) or Ajeet Kaur was the first wife of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh The couple married on 21 June 1677 and had three children together. Mata Jito wa ...

, and

Mata Sahib Kaur Mata Sahib Devan (1 November 1681 – 1747, pa, ਮਾਤਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਦੇਵਾਂ) was the wife of Guru Gobind Singh. She was the daughter of Har Bhagwan Devan (alias ''Ramu''), a Bassi Khatri of Rohtas, Jhelum District. Mata Sahib ...

, the wives of Sikh guru Gobind Singh; according to one theory, the first two are the same person *

Mata Tripta Mata Tripta ( Punjabi: ਮਾਤਾ ਤ੍ਰਿਪਤਾ; ''mātā tripatā'') was the mother of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism. Her father was Bhai Raam, a Jhangar Khatri from the village of Chaliawala (or Chahal), near Lahore, and he ...

, mother of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism *

Mata (rapper) Michał Matczak (born 14 July 2000 in Wrocław), known professionally as Mata or Skute Bobo, is a Polish rapper, singer and songwriter. Life He is the son of Marcin Matczak, a law professor and Arletta Śliwińska-Matczak, who runs an English ...

(born 2000), Polish rapper

Entertainment

* ''Mata'' (2006 film), a Kannada language film * ''Mata'' (1942 film), a Bollywood film *

MATA Festival The MATA Festival is a New York-based annual contemporary classical music festival devoted to championing the works of young composers. It was founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa and Eleonor Sandresky and is currently under the leaders ...

, short for Music at the Anthology, Inc., a festival of contemporary classical music based in New York *

Mata (album) ''Mata'' (stylised in all caps) is the sixth studio album by English recording artist M.I.A. It was released on 14 October 2022 through Island Records, marking her first album release for six years. M.I.A. worked with a number of producers on t ...

, a 2022 album by M.I.A.

Other uses

* ''Ma Ta'',

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

newspaper based in Mumbai, India. * Mata, may refer to

Mataji {{italic title ''Mataji'' (Hindi माताजी ''mātājī'') is a Hindi term meaning 'respected mother'. Etymology "Mātā" (माता) is the Hindi word for "mother", from Sanskrit ''matr.'' (मातृ), and the "-jī" (जी) suff ...

** Hindi term for mother - for example

Skandamata ''Skandamātā'' ( sa, स्कन्दमाता) is the fifth among the Navadurga forms of Mahadevi. Her name comes from ''Skanda'', an alternate name for the war god Kartikeya, and ''Mātā'', meaning mother. As one of the Navadurga, the w ...

, the mother of war god Skanda **

Devi Devī (; Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess'; the masculine form is ''deva''. ''Devi'' and ''deva'' mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are also gender-specific terms for a deity in Hinduism. The conce ...

in Hindu religion * ''Mata'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas *

Matha A ''matha'' (; sa, मठ, ), also written as ''math'', ''muth'', ''mutth'', ''mutt'', or ''mut'', is a Sanskrit word that means 'institute or college', and it also refers to a monastery in Hinduism.

, is a Hindu religious institution