chess

Etymology 1
From, , from , plural of , from , from , from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬 and its descendants: 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. More at check and.

Noun

 * 1) A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሰንጠረዥ
 * Arabic: ,
 * Hijazi Arabic: شَطْرَنْج
 * Aragonese: axedrez
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܠܲܦܣܵܢܹ̈ܐ
 * Classical Syriac: ܛܠܦܣܢܐ, ܫܛܪܢܓ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: দবাখেল
 * Asturian: axedrez
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: шахмат
 * Basque: xake
 * Belarusian: ша́хматы, ша́хы
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton: echedoù,
 * Bulgarian: шах, шахма́т
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: шатар
 * Carpathian Rusyn: ша́хы
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: satuor
 * Chechen: шахматаш
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 國際象棋
 * Mandarin:,  ,
 * Chukchi: чьумэт
 * Chuvash: шахмат
 * Cornish: gwydhbol
 * Crimean Tatar: şahmat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ރާޒުވާ
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Dzongkha: དམག་རྩེད
 * Emilian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Extremaduran:
 * Fala: ajedré
 * Faroese: talv
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ζατρίκιον
 * Gujarati: ચેસ
 * Haitian Creole: echèk
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: ahedrés
 * Hindi:, चैस, , , , , , , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Schach
 * Icelandic:, skáktafl,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: ahedrés
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: šahmatat
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᑕᓃᑦ
 * Irish:
 * Istriot:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 西洋将棋
 * Javanese: sekak
 * Kalmyk: шатр
 * Kannada:, ಚೆಸ್
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 서양장기(西洋將棋)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: sedrenc,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin:
 * Lao: ໝາກຮຸກ, ໝາກເສີກ, ໝາກເສິກ
 * Latin: ludus scacchorum (in a Medieval Manuscript: ludus schacorum),,  gen pl , scaccī
 * Latvian: šahs
 * Leonese:
 * Lezgi: шахматар
 * Ligurian: scàcco
 * Lithuanian: šachmatai
 * Samogitian: šachmatā
 * Lombard:, scachi
 * Luganda: omweso
 * Luxembourgish: Schach
 * Macedonian: шах
 * Malagasy:, ,
 * Malay:, sekak
 * Malayalam: ചെസ്സ്
 * Maltese:, skakk
 * Manx: feeal
 * Maori: whaikīngi
 * Maranao: satoran
 * Marathi: बुद्धिबळ
 * Middle English: ches
 * Middle Persian: 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢
 * Mirandese: xadreç
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠲᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Classical: cuauhpatōlli, cuappatōlli
 * Navajo: siláo ałchʼįʼ naanil
 * Nepali:
 * Nganasan: катариаи’’
 * Nogai: шатыраш
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old East Slavic: шахматꙑ
 * Old Norse: skák,
 * Ossetian: шахмӕттӕ, къентӕ
 * Ottoman Turkish: سطرنج
 * Pali: caturaṅga
 * Pashto: سترنج,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, شَتْرَنْگ, شَتْرَنْج, چَتْرَنْگ
 * Piedmontese: scach
 * Plautdietsch: Schach
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸ਼ਤਰੰਜ
 * Romagnol: schöc
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tàileasg, fidhcheall
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ша̏х, са̀нтра̄ч
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: scacchi
 * Silesian: szachmaty
 * Sinhalese: පාද ක්‍රීඩාව
 * Slovak: šach, šachy
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: šach
 * Upper Sorbian: šach
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: satol,
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tarantino:
 * Tatar: шахмат
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་མིག་མངས
 * Tigrinya: ቸስ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: küşt
 * Ukrainian: ша́хи
 * Urdu: شَطْرَن٘ج, چیس
 * Uyghur: شاھمات, شەترەنج
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Veps: šahmatad
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: malõ
 * Waray-Waray: chess, tses
 * Welsh:, sies
 * West Frisian: skake
 * Western Panjabi:
 * Yakut: саахымат
 * Yiddish: שאָך, שאַכמאַט
 * Zulu: ishesi

Etymology 2

 * perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of several species of grass in the genus, generally considered weeds.

Etymology 3
Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.