maika
See also: Maika
English
Noun
maika (plural maikas)
- (India) A woman's maternal village: the place where 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 maikā, 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.
- 1977, Kenneth David (Ed.), The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia, p. 279:
Anagrams
- Amika, Kaima, Makai, makai
Malagasy
Adjective
maika
- in a hurry
Maori
Etymology
Related to Tahitian me'a and Hawaiian maiʻa from Proto-Polynesian *maika.[1][2]
Noun
maika
- banana.
Synonyms
- panana
References
- “Maika”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2023
- Biggs, Bruce (1991), “A Linguist Revisits the New Zealand Bush”, in Pawley, A, editor, Man and a half: essays in Pacific anthropology andethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer, Auckland: Polynesian Society, pages 67-72
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *máhī(kahï).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmai̯.ka]
Noun
maika
- cassava, yuca
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)