Meaning of maika | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.

India

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“This was the last indulgence she was permitted. It was meant to soften the severing of all connections with her maika.”

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