SAIS
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Via Hundustani, from Arabic , from ‘to tend a horse’.
Noun
- 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
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