"sais" meaning in All languages combined

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Numeral [Aklanon]

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish seis. Etymology templates: {{bor|akl|es|seis}} Spanish seis Head templates: {{head|akl|numeral}} sais
  1. six
    Sense id: en-sais-akl-num-RHeNgjZe Categories (other): Aklanon entries with incorrect language header

Noun [English]

IPA: /saɪs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-uk-sais.opus [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: saises [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪs Etymology: From Hindi (Hindustani), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|hi|-}} Hindi, {{der|en|ar|سَائِس||stableman, groom}} Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), {{m|ar|سَاس||to tend a horse}} سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”), {{root|en|ar|س و س}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} sais (plural saises)
  1. (India) A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. Tags: India
    Sense id: en-sais-en-noun-3DKNKZJn Categories (other): Indian English, English eye dialect Disambiguation of English eye dialect: 46 19 36
  2. (Malaya, dated) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-sais-en-noun-xNEoCVNH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English heteronyms Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 48 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 31 48 20 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 30 49 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: syce, sice
Etymology number: 1

Verb [English]

IPA: /seɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sais (says).wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -eɪz Etymology: Nonstandard spelling of says. Etymology templates: {{no deprecated lang param usage|Nonstandard spelling of <span class='form-of-definition-link'><i class="Latn mention" lang="en">says</i></span>.|lang=}} Nonstandard spelling of says., {{nonstandard spelling of|en|says}} Nonstandard spelling of says. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sais
  1. Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says.
    Sense id: en-sais-en-verb-8kftwHCe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [French]

IPA: /sɛ/
Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} sais
  1. first/second-person singular present indicative of savoir Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Form of: savoir
    Sense id: en-sais-fr-verb-9HoaUb9x Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Galician]

Head templates: {{head|gl|verb form}} sais
  1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of sair Tags: form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Form of: sair
    Sense id: en-sais-gl-verb-KAPd4eGv Categories (other): Galician entries with incorrect language header

Numeral [Ilocano]

IPA: /ˌsa ˈʔis/, [ˌsa ˈʔis]
Etymology: borrowed from Spanish seis Etymology templates: {{bor|ilo|es|seis}} Spanish seis Head templates: {{head|ilo|numeral}} sais
  1. six Categories (topical): Ilocano cardinal numbers Synonyms: innem, seis
    Sense id: en-sais-ilo-num-RHeNgjZe Categories (other): Ilocano entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Indonesian]

IPA: [ˈsaɪs] Forms: saisku [first-person, possessive], saismu [possessive, second-person], saisnya [possessive, third-person]
Rhymes: -ɪs, -s Etymology: From Malay sais, from Hindi साईस (sāīs), सईस (saīs, “groom”) (Hindustani), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”). Etymology templates: {{inh|id|ms|sais}} Malay sais, {{der|id|hi|साईस}} Hindi साईस (sāīs), {{m|hi|सईस||groom}} सईस (saīs, “groom”), {{der|id|ar|سَائِس||stableman, groom}} Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), {{m|ar|سَاس||to tend a horse}} سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”) Head templates: {{id-noun}} sais (first-person possessive saisku, second-person possessive saismu, third-person possessive saisnya)
  1. driver Synonyms: kusir

Numeral [Kabuverdianu]

Etymology: From Portuguese seis. Etymology templates: {{der|kea|pt|seis}} Portuguese seis Head templates: {{head|kea|numeral}} sais
  1. six (6) Categories (topical): Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers
    Sense id: en-sais-kea-num-pNZtnEPK Categories (other): Kabuverdianu entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Malay]

IPA: /sais/ Forms: ساءيس [Jawi], sais-sais [plural], saisku [first-person, informal, possessive], saismu [possessive, second-person], saisnya [possessive, third-person]
Rhymes: -is Etymology: From Hindi साईस (sāīs), सईस (saīs, “groom”), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (“to tend a horse”). Etymology templates: {{bor|ms|hi|साईस}} Hindi साईस (sāīs), {{m|hi|सईस||groom}} सईस (saīs, “groom”), {{der|ms|ar|سَائِس||stableman, groom}} Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), {{m|ms|سَاس||to tend a horse}} سَاس (“to tend a horse”) Head templates: {{ms-noun|j=ساءيس}} sais (Jawi spelling ساءيس, plural sais-sais, informal 1st possessive saisku, 2nd possessive saismu, 3rd possessive saisnya)
  1. chauffeur, driver Synonyms: pemandu
    Sense id: en-sais-ms-noun-zCWmecpl Categories (other): Malay entries with incorrect language header, Malay terms with redundant script codes

Noun [Portuguese]

IPA: /ˈsajs/ [Brazil], [ˈsaɪ̯s] [Brazil], /ˈsajs/ [Brazil], [ˈsaɪ̯s] [Brazil], /ˈsajʃ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [ˈsaɪ̯ʃ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /ˈsajʃ/ [Portugal]
Head templates: {{head|pt|noun form|g=m}} sais m
  1. plural of sal Tags: form-of, masculine, plural Form of: sal
    Sense id: en-sais-pt-noun-JIdGs2fA

Verb [Portuguese]

IPA: /ˈsajs/ [Brazil], [ˈsaɪ̯s] [Brazil], /ˈsajs/ [Brazil], [ˈsaɪ̯s] [Brazil], /ˈsajʃ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [ˈsaɪ̯ʃ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /ˈsajʃ/ [Portugal]
Head templates: {{head|pt|verb form}} sais
  1. second-person singular present indicative of sair Tags: form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Form of: sair
    Sense id: en-sais-pt-verb-KAPd4eGv Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 41 59

Numeral [Tagalog]

IPA: /saˈʔis/, [sɐˈʔis] Forms: saís [canonical], ᜐᜁᜐ᜔ [Baybayin]
Head templates: {{tl-num|saís|b=+}} saís (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜁᜐ᜔)
  1. (common) Alternative form of seis Tags: alt-of, alternative, common Alternative form of: seis

Noun [Tok Pisin]

Etymology: From English size. Etymology templates: {{der|tpi|en|size}} English size Head templates: {{head|tpi|noun}} sais
  1. size
    Sense id: en-sais-tpi-noun-zNy-hG89 Categories (other): Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1808, Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports; being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's; for Edward Orme, Bond-Street, the corner of Brook-Street, and B. Crosby and Co. Stationers' Court, →OCLC, page 213",
          "text": "Not one of them [horse dealers] will venture a horse, he is about to sell, in the stables of the intended purchaser, unless attended by one of his own syces, or grooms, who both knows and is known by the animal. If the horse be very old, or naturally dull, the syce takes care to ply him with spices and other stimulants; and if vicious, opium, and other anodynes are given; so that the horse is absolutely in a state of disguise.",
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          "ref": "1849 April 19, “General Return of Casualties in the Army of the Punjaub in the Action at Goojerat on the 21st February 1849, between the British Forces under the Personal Command of General the Right Hon. Hugh Baron Gough, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in India, and the Rebel Army under the Sirdar Chuttur Singh and Rajah Shere Singh”, in The Indian News, and Chronicle of Eastern Affairs, number 160, London, →OCLC, page 179",
          "text": "4th Troop 1st Brigade—3 rank and file, 1 syce, 17 horses, killed; […]",
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          "ref": "1890, Flora Annie Webster Steel; Grace Gardiner, “The Duties of the Servants”, in The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook: Giving the Duties of Mistress and Servants, the General Management of the House and Practical Recipes for Cooking in all its Branches, Edinburgh: F. Murray, OCLC 228145908; reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 978-1-108-02193-7, page 68",
          "text": "THE DUTIES OF THE SAIS OR GROOM. […] Now, if the good house-mother's proudest boast is that not even \"the cattle within her gate\" fail to feel her kindly care, she will often find it necessary to take an active part in teaching the sais his duty, and seeing that the horses receive proper attention. […] The old plan of a sais and a grass-cutter to each horse is a thing of the past, and the number of saises or grooms should have reference merely to the amount of harnessing and out-work necessary during the day."
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          "ref": "1906, Charles A[tmore] Sherring, “Superstitions”, in Western Tibet and the British Borderland; the Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists, with an Account of the Government, Religion, and Customs of its Peoples, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 100",
          "text": "But apart from the story of the havildar, my own syce, a hillman who attends my pony, has actually seen two ghosts, with one of whom he held a long conversation.",
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          "ref": "1924, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1952, →OCLC, page 13",
          "text": "Dinner, dinner, dinner … but when he returned to the house for it, Mahmoud Ali had drifted away in his turn, to speak to his sais.",
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          "ref": "1974, Apa Pant, “Dreams and Destinations”, in A Moment in Time, Bombay: Orient Longman, →OCLC, page 76",
          "text": "The horse also, as if it had its own premonitions, refused to get on to those rickety planks, though the rest of the party had negotiated them safely. The sais (horse attendant), who had no such anxieties, crossed ahead of us and struggled for some minutes to drag the poor frightened animal, with myself on its back, across the chasm.",
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          "ref": "1987, Sara Banerji, The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.",
          "text": "We have not been able to get a good syce for our animal, and have had to make do with a young and inexperienced fellow.",
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          "ref": "2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, page 95",
          "text": "Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the saises sat as many of the Skidars' regiment as had leave to attend the match […]",
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          "ref": "1935, Ralph Lionel German, Handbook to British Malaya, 1935, [London]: [R. L. German]: Obtainable from the Malay Information Agency, Waterlow and Sons, →OCLC, page 50",
          "text": "House servants are usually either Chinese or Tamil, the former predominating, especially in towns of any size. The domestic staff will in general consist of a houseboy (in large establishments two houseboys), a water carrier (tukang ayer), whose duties include washing dishes and preparing baths, a cook, a gardener, a chauffeur or sais, and perhaps an ayah (if Chinese, amah) or two, according to the size of the family.",
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          "ref": "1994, Laurence C[arl] Bergquist, Destiny: A Southeast Asia Saga, 1928–1953: Singapore, Malaya, Indonesia, Pacifica, Calif.: Pacifica Press, page 51",
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          "ref": "1999, Mary Sydney Burke, The Soldier's Wife: Peace and War, London: Janus Publishing Company, page 128",
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          "ref": "2005, Christopher [Alan] Bayly with Tim[othy Norman] Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, page 53",
          "text": "[T]he expansion of the service economy, for the home, the office and the municipality, had created a more mixed labouring world. A wealthy European or Asian home would bring together a Chinese amah, or maid, a Malay syce, or chauffeur, and an Indian kebun, or gardener, operating through a Malay lingua franca. On a larger scale, in the invisible city, ethnic communities were pushed closer together, often for the first time.",
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          "text": "'Yes,' sais I, 'what's left of me; but, good gracious,' sais I, 'you have got the 'heaves.' I hope it ain't catchin'.",
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          "ref": "2000, Frederic Remington, “Sun-Down Leflare's Warm Spot”, in John D. Seelye, editor, Stories of the Old West: Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry Troop, & Cattle Ranch, Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, page 203",
          "text": "Well, he tak some young man un he go off to Alsaroke to steal horse, un I seet roun' un watch dat woman. She watch me. Pretty soon camp was hunt de buffalo, un I was hunt Snow-Owl's woman. Every one was excite, un dey don' tak no 'count of me. I see de woman go up leetle coulie for stray horse, un I follar her. I sais, 'How do? You come be my woman. We run off to Meestar MacDonnail's tradehouse.' […] She sais she afraid.",
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        "first-person",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɛ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gl",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Galician",
  "lang_code": "gl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Galician entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "sair"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular present indicative of sair"
      ],
      "id": "en-sais-gl-verb-KAPd4eGv",
      "links": [
        [
          "sair",
          "sair#Galician"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "reintegrationist norm",
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        "(reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of sair"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ilo",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "seis"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish seis",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "borrowed from Spanish seis",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ilo",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sa‧is"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ilo",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Ilocano cardinal numbers",
          "parents": [
            "Cardinal numbers",
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ilocano entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "six"
      ],
      "id": "en-sais-ilo-num-RHeNgjZe",
      "links": [
        [
          "six",
          "six"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "innem"
        },
        {
          "word": "seis"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsa ˈʔis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌsa ˈʔis]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "id",
        "2": "ms",
        "3": "sais"
      },
      "expansion": "Malay sais",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "id",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "साईस"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi साईस (sāīs)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "सईस",
        "3": "",
        "4": "groom"
      },
      "expansion": "सईस (saīs, “groom”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "id",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "سَائِس",
        "4": "",
        "5": "stableman, groom"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "سَاس",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to tend a horse"
      },
      "expansion": "سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Malay sais, from Hindi साईस (sāīs), सईस (saīs, “groom”) (Hindustani), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”).",
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    {
      "form": "saisku",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saismu",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saisnya",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sais (first-person possessive saisku, second-person possessive saismu, third-person possessive saisnya)",
      "name": "id-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sa‧is"
  ],
  "lang": "Indonesian",
  "lang_code": "id",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indonesian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indonesian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "driver"
      ],
      "id": "en-sais-id-noun-tN74IXyt",
      "links": [
        [
          "driver",
          "driver"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kusir"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪs]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪs"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-s"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kea",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "seis"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese seis",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Portuguese seis.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kea",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Kabuverdianu",
  "lang_code": "kea",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers",
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            "Cardinal numbers",
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Kabuverdianu entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "six (6)"
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      "id": "en-sais-kea-num-pNZtnEPK",
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        [
          "six",
          "six"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "id",
            "2": "sais"
          },
          "expansion": "Indonesian: sais",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Indonesian: sais"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "xà ích",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: xà ích",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Vietnamese: xà ích"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ms",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "साईस"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi साईस (sāīs)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "सईस",
        "3": "",
        "4": "groom"
      },
      "expansion": "सईस (saīs, “groom”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ms",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "سَائِس",
        "4": "",
        "5": "stableman, groom"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ms",
        "2": "سَاس",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to tend a horse"
      },
      "expansion": "سَاس (“to tend a horse”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi साईस (sāīs), सईस (saīs, “groom”), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (“to tend a horse”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ساءيس",
      "tags": [
        "Jawi"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "sais-sais",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saisku",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "informal",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saismu",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saisnya",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "j": "ساءيس"
      },
      "expansion": "sais (Jawi spelling ساءيس, plural sais-sais, informal 1st possessive saisku, 2nd possessive saismu, 3rd possessive saisnya)",
      "name": "ms-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "Malay",
  "lang_code": "ms",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Malay terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "id": "en-sais-ms-noun-zCWmecpl",
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        [
          "chauffeur",
          "chauffeur"
        ],
        [
          "driver",
          "driver"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pemandu"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sais/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-is"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sais"
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "sair"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular present indicative of sair"
      ],
      "id": "en-sais-pt-verb-KAPd4eGv",
      "links": [
        [
          "sair",
          "sair#Portuguese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯ʃ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "noun form",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "sais m",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sais"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "sal"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "plural of sal"
      ],
      "id": "en-sais-pt-noun-JIdGs2fA",
      "links": [
        [
          "sal",
          "sal#Portuguese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯ʃ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "saís",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᜐᜁᜐ᜔",
      "tags": [
        "Baybayin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "saís",
        "b": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "saís (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜁᜐ᜔)",
      "name": "tl-num"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sa‧is"
  ],
  "lang": "Tagalog",
  "lang_code": "tl",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "seis"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog links with ignored alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with ignored alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of seis"
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      "id": "en-sais-tl-num-qhgL1HAG",
      "links": [
        [
          "seis",
          "seis#Tagalog"
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        "(common) Alternative form of seis"
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        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "common"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/saˈʔis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sɐˈʔis]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "size"
      },
      "expansion": "English size",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English size.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "size"
      ],
      "id": "en-sais-tpi-noun-zNy-hG89",
      "links": [
        [
          "size",
          "size"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "akl",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "seis"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish seis",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish seis.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "akl",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Aklanon",
  "lang_code": "akl",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Aklanon entries with incorrect language header",
        "Aklanon lemmas",
        "Aklanon numerals",
        "Aklanon terms borrowed from Spanish",
        "Aklanon terms derived from Spanish"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "six"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "six",
          "six"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English eye dialect",
    "English heteronyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nonstandard forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Arabic",
    "English terms derived from Hindi",
    "English terms derived from the Arabic root س و س",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verb forms",
    "Rhymes:English/aɪs",
    "Rhymes:English/aɪs/1 syllable",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪz"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "سَائِس",
        "4": "",
        "5": "stableman, groom"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "سَاس",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to tend a horse"
      },
      "expansion": "سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "س و س"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi (Hindustani), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "saises",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sais (plural saises)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808, Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports; being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's; for Edward Orme, Bond-Street, the corner of Brook-Street, and B. Crosby and Co. Stationers' Court, →OCLC, page 213",
          "text": "Not one of them [horse dealers] will venture a horse, he is about to sell, in the stables of the intended purchaser, unless attended by one of his own syces, or grooms, who both knows and is known by the animal. If the horse be very old, or naturally dull, the syce takes care to ply him with spices and other stimulants; and if vicious, opium, and other anodynes are given; so that the horse is absolutely in a state of disguise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849 April 19, “General Return of Casualties in the Army of the Punjaub in the Action at Goojerat on the 21st February 1849, between the British Forces under the Personal Command of General the Right Hon. Hugh Baron Gough, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in India, and the Rebel Army under the Sirdar Chuttur Singh and Rajah Shere Singh”, in The Indian News, and Chronicle of Eastern Affairs, number 160, London, →OCLC, page 179",
          "text": "4th Troop 1st Brigade—3 rank and file, 1 syce, 17 horses, killed; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890, Flora Annie Webster Steel; Grace Gardiner, “The Duties of the Servants”, in The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook: Giving the Duties of Mistress and Servants, the General Management of the House and Practical Recipes for Cooking in all its Branches, Edinburgh: F. Murray, OCLC 228145908; reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 978-1-108-02193-7, page 68",
          "text": "THE DUTIES OF THE SAIS OR GROOM. […] Now, if the good house-mother's proudest boast is that not even \"the cattle within her gate\" fail to feel her kindly care, she will often find it necessary to take an active part in teaching the sais his duty, and seeing that the horses receive proper attention. […] The old plan of a sais and a grass-cutter to each horse is a thing of the past, and the number of saises or grooms should have reference merely to the amount of harnessing and out-work necessary during the day."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Charles A[tmore] Sherring, “Superstitions”, in Western Tibet and the British Borderland; the Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists, with an Account of the Government, Religion, and Customs of its Peoples, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 100",
          "text": "But apart from the story of the havildar, my own syce, a hillman who attends my pony, has actually seen two ghosts, with one of whom he held a long conversation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1952, →OCLC, page 13",
          "text": "Dinner, dinner, dinner … but when he returned to the house for it, Mahmoud Ali had drifted away in his turn, to speak to his sais.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Apa Pant, “Dreams and Destinations”, in A Moment in Time, Bombay: Orient Longman, →OCLC, page 76",
          "text": "The horse also, as if it had its own premonitions, refused to get on to those rickety planks, though the rest of the party had negotiated them safely. The sais (horse attendant), who had no such anxieties, crossed ahead of us and struggled for some minutes to drag the poor frightened animal, with myself on its back, across the chasm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Sara Banerji, The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.",
          "text": "We have not been able to get a good syce for our animal, and have had to make do with a young and inexperienced fellow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, page 95",
          "text": "Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the saises sat as many of the Skidars' regiment as had leave to attend the match […]",
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        "A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses."
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          "ref": "1935, Ralph Lionel German, Handbook to British Malaya, 1935, [London]: [R. L. German]: Obtainable from the Malay Information Agency, Waterlow and Sons, →OCLC, page 50",
          "text": "House servants are usually either Chinese or Tamil, the former predominating, especially in towns of any size. The domestic staff will in general consist of a houseboy (in large establishments two houseboys), a water carrier (tukang ayer), whose duties include washing dishes and preparing baths, a cook, a gardener, a chauffeur or sais, and perhaps an ayah (if Chinese, amah) or two, according to the size of the family.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1988, Margaret Pemberton, A Multitude of Sins, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →OCLC",
          "text": "[A]fter their first few days there he had hired a syce, a Malay chauffeur. The syce, who had been squatting down, sheltering in the shade of the car, jumped to his feet at their approach, opening the doors for them with an efficient flourish.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1994, Laurence C[arl] Bergquist, Destiny: A Southeast Asia Saga, 1928–1953: Singapore, Malaya, Indonesia, Pacifica, Calif.: Pacifica Press, page 51",
          "text": "Each establishment had a retinue of Chinese or Malay servants, on average consisting of a cook, one or two \"house boys,\" a tukang kebun (gardener), a sais (chauffeur), and an ayah or amah (maid or nurse) to take care of ironing […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Mary Sydney Burke, The Soldier's Wife: Peace and War, London: Janus Publishing Company, page 128",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Christopher [Alan] Bayly with Tim[othy Norman] Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, page 53",
          "text": "[T]he expansion of the service economy, for the home, the office and the municipality, had created a more mixed labouring world. A wealthy European or Asian home would bring together a Chinese amah, or maid, a Malay syce, or chauffeur, and an Indian kebun, or gardener, operating through a Malay lingua franca. On a larger scale, in the invisible city, ethnic communities were pushed closer together, often for the first time.",
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          "ref": "1855 August, “Editor's Drawer”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XI, number LXIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 425",
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          "ref": "2000, Frederic Remington, “Sun-Down Leflare's Warm Spot”, in John D. Seelye, editor, Stories of the Old West: Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry Troop, & Cattle Ranch, Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, page 203",
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      "ipa": "/sais/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-is"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Portuguese 1-syllable words",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese non-lemma forms",
    "Portuguese noun forms",
    "Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Portuguese verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sais"
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "sair"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular present indicative of sair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sair",
          "sair#Portuguese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯ʃ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Portuguese 1-syllable words",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese non-lemma forms",
    "Portuguese noun forms",
    "Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Portuguese verb forms"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "noun form",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "sais m",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sais"
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "sal"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of sal"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sal",
          "sal#Portuguese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajs/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯s]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsaɪ̯ʃ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsajʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "saís",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᜐᜁᜐ᜔",
      "tags": [
        "Baybayin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "saís",
        "b": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "saís (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜁᜐ᜔)",
      "name": "tl-num"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sa‧is"
  ],
  "lang": "Tagalog",
  "lang_code": "tl",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "seis"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Tagalog 2-syllable words",
        "Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tagalog lemmas",
        "Tagalog links with ignored alt parameters",
        "Tagalog links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Tagalog numerals",
        "Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
        "Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of seis"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seis",
          "seis#Tagalog"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(common) Alternative form of seis"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "common"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/saˈʔis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sɐˈʔis]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "size"
      },
      "expansion": "English size",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English size.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "sais",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tok Pisin lemmas",
        "Tok Pisin nouns",
        "Tok Pisin terms derived from English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "size"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "size",
          "size"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sais"
}

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