maika
maika noun: a woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
Noun
maika (plural maikas)
- A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
- 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.1977, Kenneth David, editor, The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia, page 279
- These images reflect a married woman's fond, idealized recollections of her maikā, where she was relatively free and pampered and which she perceives as a land of (emotional) wealth and prosperity.1996, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, page 86
maika meaning in Hindi
maika in Hindi
- maika; mother's home
- मायका māykā
- maika, a married woman's paternal home
- मैका maikā
Forms of maika
| plural | maikas |
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Questions about maika
- What does maika mean?
- Maika means a woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
- What is maika in Hindi?
- Maika in Hindi is मायका (māykā), मैका (maikā). See Maika meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is maika?
- Maika is a noun.
- What is the plural of maika?
- The plural of maika is maikas.
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