koomkie

noun

koom·​kie

ˈkümkē

variants or koonkie

-ünkē,

-üŋkē

plural -s

: a trained usually female elephant used in India to decoy and train wild male elephants

Word History

Etymology

Hindi kumakī helper, from Persian

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