maa

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It was something that Chandra used to do for her maa.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

“This is my maa and baap and my brothers and our cow, which we had to sell so I could marry you. This is our marketplace, where my baap has a stall to write letters.”

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