şaxmat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑːxˈmɑːt/

Noun

şaxmat f

1. chess

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “şaxmat”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 570