chess
English
/t͡ʃɛs/
noun
Definitions
- A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ches derived from Old French eschés derived from Latin scaccus (king, shah) derived from Arabic شَاه (king in chess, king) derived from Persian شاه (king, shah, master, shh, big) derived from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (king) derived from Old Persian 𐏋 (king, ruler).
Origin
Old Persian
𐏋
Gloss
king, ruler
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
王
Emoji
👑 🦁
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- board English
- chessboard English
- chessboardlike English
- chessic English
- chessically English
- chesslike English
- chessman English
- chessmaster English
- holochess English
- hyperchess English
- master English
- nonchess English
- shah English
- *scaccus Latin
- scaccarium Latin
- scacci Latin
- scaccus Latin
- Blindschach German
- Dodelschach German
- Schach German
- Schachspiel German
- Schachspieler German
- Schachuhr German
- Schachweltmeister German
- Schachzug German
- Schah German
- Tandemschach German
- sakk Hungarian
- scacchi Italian
- scacchismo Italian
- scacchista Italian
- sjah Dutch, Flemish
- schah French
- шах Russian
- *tek- Proto-Indo-European
- sjah Norwegian Bokmål
- xeque Portuguese
- xá Portuguese
- schack Swedish
- shah Swedish
- チェス Japanese
- チェスボード Japanese
- sjah Norwegian Nynorsk
- ches Middle English
- skák Old Norse
- šach Czech
- شَاه Arabic
- مَقَدِيشُو Arabic
- eschec Old French
- eschek Old French
- eschés Old French
- escacat Catalan, Valencian
- escacs Catalan, Valencian
- xa Catalan, Valencian
- शाह Hindi
- șah Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- шоҳ Persian
- خوارزمشاه Persian
- شاه Persian
- شاهانه Persian
- شاهزاده Persian
- شاهوار Persian
- شاهکار Persian
- شاهتوت Persian
- شاهدانه Persian
- مقعد Persian
- sies Welsh
- šahs Latvian
- shakar Ido
- şah Turkish
- syah Malay
- schāch Middle High German
- Schach Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- шаһ Kazakh
- şah Azerbaijani
- אחשורוש Hebrew (modern)
- חשיארש Hebrew (modern)
- شاه Ottoman Turkish
- *skāk Old Dutch
- 沙赫 Chinese
- 沙阿 Chinese
- *ksayati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *kšáyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- šach Slovak
- chesi Swahili
- 체스 Korean
- ċess Maltese
- شاھ Uighur, Uyghur
- 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 Middle Persian
- 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 Middle Persian
- xake Basque
- חשיארש Aramaic
- *xšáyati Proto-Iranian
- Shohjahon Uzbek
- 𐏋 Old Persian
- шагь Kumyk
- şa Turkmen