ajedrez

Spanish

Un juego de ajedrez.

Alternative forms

• axedrez (obsolete)
• aljedrez (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish axedrez, borrowed from Arabic شِطْرَنْج (šiṭranj) via Andalusian Arabic, from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲‎𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (cʾt‎lʾng /⁠čatrang⁠/), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /axeˈdɾeθ/ [a.xeˈð̞ɾeθ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /axeˈdɾes/ [a.xeˈð̞ɾes] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eθ (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: a‧je‧drez

Noun

ajedrez m (plural ajedreces)

1. chess
   • 2023 April, “Leyes Del Ajedrez 2023”, in FIDE‎^[1], page 3:

     La partida de ajedrez se juega entre dos adversarios que mueven alternativamente sus propias piezas sobre un tablero cuadrado, llamado “tablero de ajedrez”.

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Derived terms

• ajedrecista
• ajedrecístico
• ajedrez rápido
• ajedrezado

Descendants

• → Cebuano: ahedres
• → Central Bikol: ahedres
• → Fala: ajedré
• → Hiligaynon: ahedres
• → Tagalog: ahedres

Further reading

• “ajedrez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025