dabbaba

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Arabic دَبَّابَة (dabbāba, a kind of siege engine).

Noun[edit]

dabbaba (plural dabbabas)

  1. (chess) A fairy chess piece that jumps two squares orthogonally (i.e. not diagonally), leaping over any intermediate piece.