caique

A caique (trading vessel)

Meaning

Noun

  • A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
  • Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

Origin

  • Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق, from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk ("boat, oar"). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.
  • Image:Blackheadedcaique.jpg|thumb|A caique (parrot)
  • From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.

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