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