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Maika vs Mauka - What's the difference?

maika | mauka |

As nouns the difference between maika and mauka

is that maika is a woman's ‘maternal village’; the place she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage while mauka is the flowering andean root vegetable mirabilis expansa , which was important to the incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.

As an adverb mauka is

(hawaii) inland, towards the mountains.

maika

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 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 .

    • mauka

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (Hawaii) inland, towards the mountains.

    • See also

    * makai

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa , which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
  • One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

    • Anagrams

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