draughts

English

Alternative forms

(game): drafts (archaic)

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɹɑːfts/
(US) enPR: drăfts, IPA^(key): /dɹæfts/
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Rhymes: -ɑːfts, -æfts

Noun

draughts

plural of draught

Noun

draughts (uncountable)

(board games, Britain, Australia, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
A mild vesicatory.

Synonyms

checkers (US, Canada)

Translations

game for two players

Albanian: damë (sq) f
Arabic: دَامَا‎ f (dāmā), دَامَة‎ f (dāma), ضَامَة‎ f (ḍāma)
Moroccan Arabic: ضامة‎ (ḍāma)
Armenian: շաշկի (hy) (šaški)
Azerbaijani: dama
Basque: dama-joko
Belarusian: ша́шкі f pl (šáški)
Bengali: চেকারস (cekarś)
Bulgarian: да́ма (bg) f (dáma)
Burmese: ကျားထိုးခြင်း (kya:htui:hkrang:)
Catalan: dames (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 國際跳棋／国际跳棋 (guójì tiàoqí), 跳棋 (zh) (tiàoqí)
Chuukese: sikang
Czech: dáma (cs) f
Danish: dam (da) c or n
Dutch: damspel (nl) n
Esperanto: damludo
Estonian: kabe (et), kabemäng, tamka, tamkamäng
Finnish: tammi (fi), tammipeli (fi)
French: jeu de dames (fr) m, dames (fr) f pl
Galician: damas f pl
Georgian: შაში (šaši)
German: Dame (de) n, Damespiel (de) n
Greek: ντάμα (el) f (dáma)
Ancient: πεσσεία f (pesseía)
Hebrew: דַּמְקָה‎ (he) f (dámka)
Hindi: चेकर्स m (cekars), ड्राफ़्टस m (ḍrāfṭas)
Hungarian: dáma (hu)
Icelandic: dammur m, dammtafl n
Ido: dami (io)
Indonesian: dam (id)
Italian: dama (it) f
Japanese: チェッカー (chekkā), 西洋碁 (せいようご, seiyōgo)
Kazakh: дойбы (kk) (doiby)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 체커 (chekeo)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دامە‎ (ku) (dame)
Northern Kurdish: dame (ku) f
Kyrgyz: дойбу (ky) (doybu)
Lao: ຫມາກດາມ (māk dām)
Latvian: dambrete
Lithuanian: saškės
Macedonian: дама f (dama)
Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: dam (ms), damdam
Maori: mū
Maranao: dama
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: даам (mn) (daam)
Navajo: naalzhoodí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dam (no) m
Nynorsk: dam m
Persian: چکرز‎ (fa) (čekerz), دام‎ (fa) (dâm)
Plautdietsch: Daumbrat n
Polish: warcaby (pl) f pl
Portuguese: damas (pt) f pl
Romanian: dame (ro) f pl, table (ro) f pl
Russian: ша́шки (ru) f pl (šáški)
Scottish Gaelic: dàmais f, tàileasg m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: да́ма f
Roman: dáma (sh) f
Slovak: dáma (sk) f
Slovene: dama f
Southern Altai: шатра (šatra)
Spanish: damas (es) f pl
Swahili: dama, drafti
Swedish: damspel, dam (sv)
Tagalog: dama
Tajik: шашки (šaški)
Tamil: அட்டாங்கம் (ta) (aṭṭāṅkam)
Thai: หมากฮอส (th) (màak-hɔ́t)
Tibetan: མཆོང་སྒྲིག་མིག་མངས (mchong sgrig mig mangs)
Turkish: dama (tr)
Turkmen: şaşka
Ukrainian: ша́шки f pl (šášky)
Urdu: ڈرافٹس‎ m (ḍrāfṭs)
Uyghur: دامكا‎ (damka)
Uzbek: shashka (uz), damka (uz)
Vietnamese: cờ đam
Yakut: дуобат (duobat)
Yiddish: דאַמקע‎ f (damke)

Verb

draughts

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught