backgammon

See also: Backgammon

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: ʹbākgāmōn, IPA^(key): /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

• Abkhaz: ана́рд (ānā́rd)
• Alemannic German: Backgammon n
• Arabic: طَاوِلَة‏‎ (ar) f (ṭāwila)
• Armenian: նարդի (hy) (nardi)
• Asturian: backgammon m
• Azeri: nərd (az)
• Belarusian: на́рды m pl (nárdy)
• Bulgarian: та́бла (bg) f (tábla)
• Catalan: backgammon m
• Chechen: нардаш (nardaš)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: vrhcáby (cs) m pl
• Danish: backgammon (da) n
• Dutch: backgammon (nl) n
• Estonian: triktrak
• Finnish: backgammon (fi)
• French: backgammon (fr) m
• Georgian: ნარდი (nardi)
• German: Backgammon (de) n
• Greek: τάβλι (el) n (távli)
• Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ בֵּשׁ‏‎ (he) (shesh besh)
• Hungarian: ostábla
• Italian: backgammon m, tric trac m, tavola reale f
• Japanese: バックギャモン (bakkugyamon)

• Korean: 주사위 놀이 (jusawi nori)
• Kurdish: nerd‏‎ (ku)
• Latin: nerdiludium m
• Latvian: nardi pl
• Lithuanian: nardai pl
• Luxembourgish: Backgammon n
• Macedonian: та́бла f (tábla)
• Middle Persian: nywʾlthšyl‏‎ (nēw-ardaxšēr)
• Norwegian: backgammon n
• Persian: نرد‏‎ (fa) (nard), تخته نرد‏‎ (fa) (taxte nard)
• Polish: tryktrak (pl) m
• Portuguese: gamão (pt) m
• Romanian: table (ro) f pl
• Russian: на́рды (ru) m pl (nárdy), триктра́к (ru) m (triktrák)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàileasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тавла f, триктрак m

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

• Slovak: backgammon m
• Slovene: backgammon m
• Spanish: backgammon m
• Swedish: backgammon (sv) n
• Turkish: tavla (tr) n
• Ukrainian: на́рди m pl (nárdy)
• Urdu: نرد‏‎ m (nard)

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.

Further reading

• backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowing from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon (board game)

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

See also

• trictrac

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (invariable)

1. backgammon

Synonyms

• tric trac
• tavola reale

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Spanish

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon