shatranj

English

Antique North Indian Mughul shatranj set made from sandalwood.

Etymology

From Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj), from Persian شترنگ (šatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).

Noun

shatranj (uncountable)

1. A board game, an ancestor of modern chess.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 3:

     Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, […] the African held the place nearest the fire […]

Translations

an ancestor of modern chess

• Arabic: شِطْرَنْج (ar) m (šiṭranj), شَطْرَنْج (ar) m (šaṭranj)
• Belarusian: шатра́ндж m (šatrándž)
• French: chatrang m
• German: Schatrandsch n
• Hindi: शतरंज (hi) f (śatrañj), चतुरंग (hi) m (caturaṅg)
• Kazakh: шатыраш (şatyraş)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شَطْرَنْج (fa) (šatranj), شَتْرَنْگ (šatrang), شَتْرَنْج (šatranj), چَتْرَنْگ (čatrang)

• Polish: szatrandż m
• Russian: шатра́ндж (ru) m (šatrándž)
• Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग (sa) m (caturaṅga)
• Ukrainian: шатра́ндж m (šatrándž)
• Urdu: شَطْرَن٘ج f (śatrañj)
• Uyghur: شەترەنج (shetrenj)
• Uzbek: shatranj (uz)

Spanish

Noun

shatranj m (uncountable)

1. shatranj

Further reading

• shatranj on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es