Sais
Pronunciation
- IPA: /saɪs/
Origin
Via Hindustani, from Arabic سائس, from سوس ("to tend a horse").
Full definition of sais
Noun
sais
(plural saises)- (India) 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)