scacci
Latin
noun
Definitions
- (Medieval Latin) chess
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic شَاه (king in chess, king) derived 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
- shah English
- *scaccus Latin
- scaccus Latin
- Schach German
- Schah German
- sjah Dutch, Flemish
- schah French
- шах Russian
- sjah Norwegian Bokmål
- xeque Portuguese
- xá Portuguese
- shah Swedish
- sjah Norwegian Nynorsk
- skák Old Norse
- šach Czech
- شَاه Arabic
- مَقَدِيشُو Arabic
- eschés 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
- 沙赫 Chinese
- 沙阿 Chinese
- šach Slovak
- شاھ Uighur, Uyghur
- 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 Middle Persian
- xake Basque
- Shohjahon Uzbek
- шагь Kumyk
- şa Turkmen