Nama

Nama or NAMA may refer to:

Biology

• NAMA (gene), a long non-coding RNA gene
• Nama (plant), a genus of plants in the family Hydrophyllaceae
• N-Acetylmuramic acid, a component of bacterial cell walls
• North American Mycological Association, a learned society devoted to mushrooms and other fungi

Companies

• Nama Chemicals, a Saudi Arabian industrial company
• Nama (department store), a chain of department stores in Slovenia

Food

• Nama beer, Japanese term for draught beer
• Nama (wine), used by the Greek Orthodox in the Divine Liturgy

Politics

• National Asset Management Agency, Irish government agency dealing with land and property development loans
• Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action, policies regarding greenhouse gas emissions
• Non-Agricultural Market Access, the question of non-agricultural market access as debated in the WTO trade negotiations

Organizations

• National Agri-Marketing Association, United States
• National Archaeological Museum, Athens
• National Automatic Merchandising Association, an American trade association for vending industries
• National Ayurvedic Medical Association, United States
• Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting

Places

• Nama, Burkina Faso, village in the Tenkodogo Department, Boulgou Province
• Nama (Chile), an archaeological site featuring pucará (ruined Inca fortifications)
• Nama (crater), a crater on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter
• Nama, India, a village at the foot of the Nama Pass
• Nama (island), an island of the State of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia
• Nama, Nanning (那马镇), town in Liangqing District, Nanning, Guangxi, China
• Nyoma, a village in India

Peoples and languages

• Nama people of Namibia and Namaqualand in South Africa
• Nama language, the language spoken by the Nama
• Nama language (Papuan), one of the Nambu languages of Papua New Guinea
• Nama, a variety of the Tigon language of Cameroon

Other uses

• Nāma, Pali and Sanskrit for "name"
• Nama band, a Greek pop/jazz/new age music group
• Namibian Annual Music Awards
• Native American Music Awards
• National Arts Merit Awards, annual award presented by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe

See also

• Naamam, the identification mark of South Indian Vaishnavites
• Namah (disambiguation)