maika
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
Indian usage
Example Sentences
- "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."