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saic

The English word “saic” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava

Etymology

From French saïque, from Italian saicca, from Ottoman Turkish شایقه (şayka), from Bulgarian ша́йка (šájka) (a variant of Bulgarian ча́йка (čájka)), from Proto-Slavic *čajьka. Doublet of Czajka.

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