Schach
German (Berlin)
/ʃax/
noun
Definitions
- chess
- check; a chess situation in which the king is directly threatened by enemy pieces
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German schāch 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
- CheckUser English
- aircheck English
- backcheck English
- buttcheck English
- check English
- checkability English
- checkable English
- checkage English
- checkback English
- checkbox English
- checker English
- checkest English
- checketh English
- checkitis English
- checkless English
- checklist English
- checkmark English
- checkpoint English
- checkpost English
- checkrein English
- checkride English
- checkroll English
- checkroom English
- checkrow English
- checkstand English
- checkstop English
- checkstring English
- checksum English
- checkweighman English
- checkwork English
- checkwriter English
- cheque English
- chess English
- chessboard English
- chessic English
- chesslike English
- chessman English
- chessmaster English
- countercheck English
- cross-check English
- e-check English
- forecheck English
- hatcheck English
- holochess English
- hyperchess English
- mischeck English
- namecheck English
- nonchess English
- overcheck English
- precheck English
- recheck English
- shah English
- soundcheck English
- stopcheck English
- telecheck English
- uncheck English
- sakki Finnish
- *scaccus Latin
- scaccarium Latin
- scacci Latin
- scaccus Latin
- Blindschach German
- Check German
- Dodel German
- Dodelschach German
- Schachspiel German
- Schachspieler German
- Schacht German
- Schachuhr German
- Schachweltmeister German
- Schachzug German
- Schah German
- Spiel German
- Spieler German
- Tandem German
- Tandemschach German
- Uhr German
- Weltmeister German
- Zug German
- blind German
- checken German
- sakk Hungarian
- sakk-készlet Hungarian
- sakkbábu Hungarian
- sakkfigura Hungarian
- sakkjátszma Hungarian
- sakkjáték Hungarian
- sakkjátékos Hungarian
- sakkmester Hungarian
- sakkok Hungarian
- sakktábla Hungarian
- checken Dutch, Flemish
- sjah Dutch, Flemish
- checker French
- schah French
- чек Russian
- шах Russian
- *tek- Proto-Indo-European
- sjah Norwegian Bokmål
- sjekk Norwegian Bokmål
- checar Portuguese
- xeque Portuguese
- xá Portuguese
- check Swedish
- schack Swedish
- schackpjäs Swedish
- shah Swedish
- チェス Japanese
- sjah Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjekk Norwegian Nynorsk
- chek Middle English
- ches Middle English
- skák Old Norse
- tjek Danish
- šach Czech
- شَاه Arabic
- مَقَدِيشُو Arabic
- eschec Old French
- eschek Old French
- eschés Old French
- ĉeko Esperanto
- ček Serbo-Croatian
- чек Serbo-Croatian
- xa Catalan, Valencian
- करना Hindi
- 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
- τσεκάρω Greek (modern)
- tsek Cebuano
- sies Welsh
- šahs Latvian
- shakar Ido
- shakfiguro Ido
- çek Turkish
- şah Turkish
- syah Malay
- schāch Middle High German
- Schach Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Schachfigur Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- шаһ Kazakh
- şah Azerbaijani
- שאָך Yiddish
- שאָכפֿיגור Yiddish
- אחשורוש Hebrew (modern)
- חשיארש Hebrew (modern)
- צ׳ק Hebrew (modern)
- شاه Ottoman Turkish
- *skāk Old Dutch
- check Chinese
- 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
- itsheki Xhosa
- sek Tok Pisin
- xake Basque
- חשיארש Aramaic
- *xšáyati Proto-Iranian
- Shohjahon Uzbek
- 𐏋 Old Persian
- چيك Gulf Arabic
- шагь Kumyk
- şa Turkmen
- chek karo Fiji Hindi