endogamy

English

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Etymology

endo- + -gamy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɛnˈdɒɡəmi/

Noun

endogamy (uncountable)

1. The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
   • 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage 2007, p. 24:

     Far from suggesting a demoralized culture, endogamy here seemed the mark of a buoyantly confident group, settled in their skin and not needing outsiders.

Translations

the practice of marrying within one's own social group

• Czech: endogamie (cs) f
• Danish: endogami (da) c, indgifte (da) n
• Dutch: endogamie (nl) f
• Estonian: endogaamia (et)
• Finnish: endogamia (fi)
• French: endogamie (fr) f
• German: Endogamie (de) f
• Greek: ενδογαμία (el) (endogamía) f
• Hungarian: endogámia (hu)
• Icelandic: innvensl (is) n pl
• Italian: endogamia (it) f
• Japanese: 近親婚 (ja) (きんしんこん, kinshinkon)

• Korean: 근친혼 (ko) (近親婚, geunchinhon)
• Persian: درون‌همسری (fa)
• Polish: endogamia (pl) f
• Portuguese: endogamia (pt) f
• Russian: эндогамия (ru) (endogamija) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ендога̀мија (sh) f

  Roman: endogàmija (sh) f

• Spanish: endogamia (es) f
• Swedish: monogami (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ендогамія (uk) (endogamija)

Antonyms

• exogamy

Related terms

• endogamous

See also

• homogamy