Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saiga

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables: saiga
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.

Example Sentences

"Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared."

Etymology

Russian сайга́ (sajgá, “saiga”), from Kazakh сайғақ (sayğaq, “saiga”), from Proto-Turkic *saygak (“saiga”).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: сайга́, сайғақ, *saygak

Inflected Forms

saigas (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Mongolian saiga possibly a subspecies Saiga tatarica mongolica Saiga borealis possibly extinct possibly including the Mongolian saiga

Synonyms

saiga antelope steppe saiga saiga tatarica

Rhymes With

taiga quadriga biga

Questions

What does saiga mean?: Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.
Where does saiga come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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