different between maika vs maiko

English

Noun

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 (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 maik?, 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.

Anagrams

• Amika, Kaima, Makai, makai

Malagasy

Adjective

maika

1. in a hurry

Maori

Noun

maika

1. banana.

Synonyms

• panana

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *máh?(kahï).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mai?.ka]

Noun

maika

1. cassava, yuca

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (maiko, literally “dancing child”).

Noun

maiko (plural maikos or maiko)

1. An apprentice geisha.

   It is our pleasure to introduce a new maiko.

Translations

Chichewa

Noun

maíko 6

1. plural of dziko

Japanese

Romanization

maiko

1. R?maji transcription of ???