caique

See also: caïque

English

A caique (trading vessel)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːˈiːk/, /kaɪˈiːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık), from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.

Alternative forms

• caïc, caicco, caieque, caïque, kaik, kaiki, kajik, kayik

Noun

caique (plural caiques)

1. (nautical) A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
   • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:

     Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.

Derived terms

• caïquejee

Translations

boat

• French: caïque (fr)
• German: Kaik (de) m, Kajik m
• Greek: καΐκι (el) n (kaḯki)
• Hungarian: kaik
• Russian: каи́к (ru) m (kaík)
• Turkish: kayık (tr)

Etymology 2

A caique (parrot)

From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.

Noun

caique (plural caiques)

1. Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

See also

• Caique (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia