shatranj
English
Etymology
From Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj), from Persian شترنگ (šatrang), from Middle Persian ctlng (čatrang), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (čaturaṅga).
Noun
shatranj (uncountable)
- An ancestor of modern chess.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 3:
- Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, […] the African held the place nearest the fire […]
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 3:
Translations
an ancestor of modern chess
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Further reading
shatranj on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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