backgammon

See also Backgammon

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Probably from back + Middle English, Old English gamen (“amusement”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ʹbākgāmōn, IPA: /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/

Noun

A backgammon board shown in starting position.

backgammon (uncountable)

1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
2. (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

Related terms

• gammon

Translations

board game

• Alsatian: Backgammon n
• Arabic: طاولة (ar) (Taawila) f
• Armenian: նարդի (hy) (nardi)
• Asturian: backgammon (ast) m
• Azeri: nərd (az)
• Bulgarian: табла (bg) (tabla) f
• Catalan: backgammon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙陸棋 (cmn), 双陆棋 (cmn) (shuānglùqí)

• Czech: vrhcáby (cs) m pl
• Danish: backgammon (da) n
• Dutch: backgammon (nl) n
• Finnish: backgammon (fi)
• French: backgammon (fr) m
• Georgian: ნარდი (ka) (nardi)
• German: Backgammon (de) n
• Greek: τάβλι (el) (tavli) n
• Hebrew: שש בש (he) (shash bash)
• Hungarian: ostábla (hu)

• Italian: backgammon (it) m, tric trac (it) m, tavola reale (it) f
• Japanese: バックギャモン (ja) (bakkugyamon)
• Korean: 주사위 놀이 (ko) (jusawi nori)
• Latin: nerdiludium (la) m
• Luxembourgish: Backgammon (lb) n
• Macedonian: табла (mk) (tábla) f
• Norwegian: backgammon (no) n
• Persian: نرد (fa) (nard)
• Polish: tryktrak (pl) m
• Portuguese: gamão (pt) m
• Russian: нарды (ru) (nárdy) m pl, триктрак (ru) (triktrak) m
• Scottish Gaelic: tàileasg (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тавла (sh) f, триктрак (sh) m

  Roman: tavla (sh) f, triktrak (sh) m

• Slovene: backgammon (sl) m
• Spanish: backgammon (es) m
• Swedish: backgammon (sv) n
• Turkish: tavla (tr) n
• Urdu: نرد (ur) (nard) m

See also

• tick-tack
• tric-trac, trick-track

Verb

backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)

1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/

Noun

backgammon m (usually uncountable)

1. backgammon

See also

• trictrac

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

backgammon m (invariable)

1. backgammon

Synonyms

• tric trac
• tavola reale