SAIS
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Etymology


Via Hundustani, from Arabic , from ‘to tend a horse’.

Noun



  1. A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.
    • 1888, Here all trace of him was lost, until a sais or groom met me on the Simla Mall with this extraordinary note — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 25)


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Verb


sais
  1. first-, second-person singular indicative present of savoir
    je ne sais pas = I do not know


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