Faroese

Proper noun

Maika f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Maika: Maikuson
• daughter of Maika: Maikudóttir

Declension

English

Noun

maika ‎(plural maikas)

1. (India) A woman's ‘maternal village’; the place 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.