Ama

Ama or AMA may refer to:

• Ama (sailing), an outrigger used on sailing boats
• Ama (diving), traditional Japanese (and predominantly female) divers
• Ama (ayurveda), a product of digestion
• Ama (title), a Samoan title given to the paramount chief and commander in war of the district of Safata

Geography

• Ama, Aichi, a city in Japan
• Ama, Belgium, Walloon name of the Belgian village of Amay
• Ama, Estonia, a village in Kadrina Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
• Ama, Iran, a village in Ilam Province, Iran
• Ama, Louisiana, a town in the United States
• Ama, Shimane, a town in Japan

AMA

AMA, a three-letter initialism, may refer to:

Medicine

• Advanced maternal age
• Against medical advice, a patient leaving a medical facility early and against the advice of medical staff
• American Medical Association
• Antimitochondrial antibody
• Antimicrosomal antibody
• Armenian Medical Association
• Argentine Medical Association
• Australian Medical Association

Non-medical organizations

• Americana Music Association
• Advanced Manageability Alliance formed in October 1996 by Intel and IBM, this alliance introduced the Wake-on-LAN technology
• Academy of Model Aeronautics, the United States' national aeromodeling organization
• Academia Mexicana de Arquitectura, Mexican architectural organization
• Accra Metropolitan Assembly, the local government body for the Accra city area
• African Muslim Agency
• Agence Mondiale Antidopage, or World Anti-Doping Agency
• Alberta Motor Association
• Alberta Municipal Affairs
• AMA Computer University, an educational institution in the Philippines
  • AMA International University, a branch of AMA Computer University, located in Bahrain
• American Management Association
• American Marketing Association
• American Missionary Association
• Art Museum of the Americas, an art museum of modern and contemporary works from Latin America and the Caribbean, located in Washington, D.C.
• Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses ("Metropolitan Bus Authority"), a public corporation based in Puerto Rico that manages the mass transit bus system on the island

Events

• American Music Awards
• Anime Mid-Atlantic, an anime convention held in Virginia, USA
• UK Asian Music Awards

People

• Ama (Ama Kōhei), former ring name for Harumafuji Kōhei, a Mongolian sumo wrestler
• Shola Ama, a British singer
• Augustus Akinloye (1919–2007), a Nigerian politician
• A. M. A. Azeez (1911–1973), a pioneering Sri Lankan Moor civil servant and educator

Sport

• American Motorcyclist Association
  • AMA Superbike Championship
  • AMA Supersport Championship
  • AMA Formula Xtreme
  • AMA Supercross Championship
  • AMA Motocross Championship
  • A.M.A. Grand National Championship

Other uses

• Actual mechanical advantage
• Advanced measurement approach, a Basel II Method of measuring operational risk.
• All Monsters Attack, 1969 Godzilla film
• Alte Mozart-Ausgabe
• American Manual Alphabet
• Army Men Advance, a video game
• "Ask Me Anything", acronym used on internet forums, primarily Reddit
• Asset Management Account, see Asset management
• Automatic Message Accounting, a telephone billing system
• Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport IATA airport code