endogamy

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

endo- +‎ -gamy; compare inmarriage.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈdɒɡəmi/

NounEdit

endogamy (usually uncountable, plural endogamies)

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.

2. (biology) the fusion of two related gametes.

SynonymsEdit

• See also Thesaurus:intermarriage

AntonymsEdit

• exogamy
• See also Thesaurus:intermarriage

Related termsEdit

• endogamous

TranslationsEdit

the practice of marrying within one's own social group

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

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

  Cyrillic: ендога̀мија f

  Roman: endogàmija f

• Spanish: endogamia (es) f
• Swedish: endogami c, ingifte n
• Ukrainian: ендогамія (endogamija)