• Sais

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /saɪs/

    Origin

    Via Hindustani, from Arabic سائس, from سوس ("to tend a horse").

    Full definition of sais

    Noun

    sais

    (plural saises)
    1. (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)
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