ajedrez
Spanish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish axedrez, borrowed from Arabic شِطْرَنْج (šiṭranj) via Andalusian Arabic, from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (cʾtlʾng /čatrang/), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /axeˈdɾeθ/ [a.xeˈð̞ɾeθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /axeˈdɾes/ [a.xeˈð̞ɾes]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eθ
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: a‧je‧drez
Noun
[edit]ajedrez m (plural ajedreces)
- 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”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
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[edit]See also
[edit]| Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text) | |||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “ajedrez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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