backgammon

See also: Backgammon

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

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

• Alemannic German: Backgammon n
• Arabic: طاولة (ar) f (ṭāwila)
• Armenian: նարդի (nardi)
• Asturian: backgammon m
• Azeri: nərd (az)
• Belarusian: нарды m pl (nárdy)
• Bulgarian: табла (bg) f (tábla)
• Catalan: backgammon m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: vrhcáby (cs) m pl
• Danish: backgammon 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: שש בש (he) (shash bash)
• 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
• Latin: nerdiludium m
• Latvian: nardi pl
• Lithuanian: nardai pl
• Luxembourgish: Backgammon n
• Macedonian: табла 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
• Russian: нарды (ru) m pl (nárdy), триктрак (ru) m (triktrák)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàileasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тавла f, триктрак m

  Roman: tavla f, triktrak m

• Slovak: backgammon m
• Slovene: backgammon m
• Spanish: backgammon m
• Swedish: backgammon n
• Turkish: tavla (tr) n
• Ukrainian: нарди 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.

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Asturian

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon (board game)

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

See also

• trictrac

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

backgammon m (invariable)

1. backgammon

Synonyms

• tric trac
• tavola reale