shatranj

shatranj

English

Etymology

From Arabic شَطْرَنْج‎ (šaṭranj), from Persian شترنگ‎ (šatrang), from Middle Persian ctlng (čatrang), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (čaturaṅga).

Noun

shatranj (uncountable)

1. An ancestor of modern chess.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 3:

     Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, […] the African held the place nearest the fire […]

Translations

an ancestor of modern chess

Kazakh: шатыраш (şatıraş)

Uyghur: شەترەنج‎ (shetrenj)

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Spanish

Noun

shatranj m (uncountable)

1. shatranj

Further reading

• shatranj on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es