schack
Swedish
/ɧak/
noun
Definitions
- chess; a game of strategy for two players.
- check; a situation in which the king is directly threatened by enemy pieces
Etymology
Derived from German Schach (chess) derived from Latin scaccus (king, shah) derived 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
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Emoji
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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
- countercheck English
- cross-check English
- e-check English
- forecheck English
- hatcheck English
- mischeck English
- namecheck English
- overcheck English
- precheck English
- recheck English
- shah English
- soundcheck English
- stopcheck English
- telecheck English
- uncheck English
- huutosakki Finnish
- jätkänsakki Finnish
- korttisakki Finnish
- sakki Finnish
- sakkilauta Finnish
- sakkinappula Finnish
- *scaccus Latin
- scaccarium Latin
- scacci Latin
- scaccus Latin
- Bergwerksschacht German
- Blindschach German
- Check German
- Dodelschach German
- Lichtschacht German
- Luftschacht German
- Schach German
- Schachspiel German
- Schachspieler German
- Schacht German
- Schachtofen German
- Schachuhr German
- Schachweltmeister German
- Schachzug German
- Schah German
- Tandemschach German
- Treppenschacht German
- checken German
- sakk Hungarian
- checken Dutch, Flemish
- sjah Dutch, Flemish
- checker French
- schah French
- чек Russian
- шах Russian
- sjah Norwegian Bokmål
- sjekk Norwegian Bokmål
- checar Portuguese
- xeque Portuguese
- xá Portuguese
- check Swedish
- pjäs Swedish
- schackpjäs Swedish
- shah Swedish
- sjah Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjekk Norwegian Nynorsk
- chek 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
- šaht 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
- šahs Latvian
- shakar Ido
- çek Turkish
- şah Turkish
- syah Malay
- schāch Middle High German
- Schach Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- шаһ Kazakh
- şah Azerbaijani
- צ׳ק Hebrew (modern)
- شاه Ottoman Turkish
- *skāk Old Dutch
- check Chinese
- 沙赫 Chinese
- 沙阿 Chinese
- schacht Middle Low German
- šach Slovak
- شاھ Uighur, Uyghur
- 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 Middle Persian
- itsheki Xhosa
- sek Tok Pisin
- xake Basque
- Shohjahon Uzbek
- چيك Gulf Arabic
- шагь Kumyk
- şa Turkmen
- chek karo Fiji Hindi