英和和英

名詞

maika (plural maikas)

1. (India) A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
   • 1977, Kenneth David, editor, The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia, page 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, page 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, published 2013, page 72:

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