maa

Example Sentences

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Author-Critic Lewis Mumford is a hard maa to please.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was so lost in amusing Hari with the pictures on my quilt, I didn’t hear his maa come into the room.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

There was my maa in her green sari and my baap on his bicycle.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

My maa had pointed out to me just such a sari when we visited the shop where she took her work.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

There were days when my maa took only a bit of rice for herself so that the rest of us—my baap, my brothers, and I—might have more.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan