Noun: xadrez
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like xadrez
nitróxeno,
sosego,
sogros,
ultrassom,
berilio,
xadrez,
chavismo,
papaventos,
paracaidismo,
medios sociais,
einsteinio,
estripacontos,
xénero humano,
xermanio,
balconismo,
ácido aspártico,
EPI,
mercurio,
iterbio,
fútbol sala, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
3. Proto-Indo-Iranian *čatwā́ras
4. Sanskrit चतुर् (catúr)
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng-
6. Sanskrit अङ्ग (áṅga)
7. Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga)bor.
8. Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (cʾtlʾng /čatrang/)
9. Classical Persian چَتْرَنگ (čatrang)bor.
10. Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj)
11. Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj)bor.
12. Old Galician-Portuguese xedrez
13. Galician xadrez
14. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese xedrez, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj), from Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj), borrowed from Classical Persian چَتْرَنگ (čatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (cʾtlʾng /čatrang/, “chess”), borrowed from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga, “comprising elephants, chariots, cavalry, and infantry”), from चतुर् (catúr, “four”) + अङ्ग (áṅga, “limb, member”), literally “four limbs; four members”. Cognate with Portuguese xadrez and Spanish ajedrez. See: Portuguese Nouns '
xadrez', Spanish Nouns '
ajedrez'.
Verbs referencing "xadrez"
Portuguese Nouns
xadrez.
Translations