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Definition of 'maika'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A woman's ‘maternal village’; the place she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
*1977 , Kenneth David (Ed.), The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia , p. 279:
*:A woman typically reports feeling much better after visiting her maika , and it is sometimes thought that the health of her children is improved by their visiting their mother's brother's house.
*1996 , Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India , p. 86:
*:These images reflect a married woman's fond, idealized recollections of her maik? , where she was relatively free and pampered and which she perceives as a land of (emotional) wealth and prosperity.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 72:
*:This was the last indulgence she was permitted. It was meant to soften the severing of all connections with her maika .
Similar to 'maika'mega, muka, massa, mesa, mica, missa, moksha, mocha, masa, maasha, maccha, musea, mecha, meeja, moxa, mecca, maca, mashua, mashwa, mauka, musha, myxa, moocha
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