eschés
Old French
noun
Definitions
- (plurale tantum) chess
- (inflection of) eschec
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شاه (king, shah, master, shh, big).
Origin
Persian
شاه
Gloss
king, shah, master, shh, big
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
主
Emoji
👑 🦁
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chess English
- shah English
- scaccarium Latin
- scaccus Latin
- Schach German
- Schah German
- sjah Dutch, Flemish
- schah French
- шах Russian
- sjah Norwegian Bokmål
- xá Portuguese
- shah Swedish
- sjah Norwegian Nynorsk
- ches Middle English
- skák Old Norse
- šach Czech
- شَاه Arabic
- مَقَدِيشُو Arabic
- eschec Old French
- eschek Old French
- xa Catalan, Valencian
- शाह Hindi
- шоҳ Persian
- خوارزمشاه Persian
- شاه Persian
- شاهانه Persian
- شاهزاده Persian
- شاهوار Persian
- شاهکار Persian
- شاهتوت Persian
- شاهدانه Persian
- مقعد Persian
- šahs Latvian
- shakar Ido
- şah Turkish
- syah Malay
- schāch Middle High German
- шаһ Kazakh
- şah Azerbaijani
- شاه Ottoman Turkish
- *skāk Old Dutch
- 沙赫 Chinese
- 沙阿 Chinese
- šach Slovak
- شاھ Uighur, Uyghur
- 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 Middle Persian
- Shohjahon Uzbek
- шагь Kumyk
- şa Turkmen