Meanings
caique1
plural caiques · alternative caïc · alternative caicco · alternative caieque · alternative caïque · alternative kaik · alternative kaiki · alternative kajik · alternative kayik · alternative saique
- nauticalA small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
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.
1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435
caique2
Origin
caique · noun
- Proto-Turkic*kiayguk“boat, oar”
- Ottoman Turkishقایق
- Italiancaicco
- Frenchcaïque
- Englishcaique
Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık), from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.
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Full word history & related roots →caique · noun
- Portuguesecaíque
- Spanishcaíque
- Englishcaique
From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
French caïque
- caïqueboat
German Kaik, Kajik
- Kaikboat
- Kajikboat
Greek καΐκι
- καΐκι (kaḯki)boat
Hungarian kaik
- kaikboat
Russian каи́к
- каи́к (kaík)boat
Turkish kayık
- kayıkboat
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with caique
Cite this entry
caique. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caique
“caique.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caique. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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