beena marriage

noun

bee·​na marriage

ˈbē-nə-

: a marriage in parts of India and Sri Lanka in which the husband enters the wife's kinship group and has little authority in the household compare muta

Word History

Etymology

Arabic bīnah distinct, separate

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