chess piece

See also: chesspiece and chess-piece

English

chess pieces

Alternative forms

chesspiece, chess-piece

Pronunciation

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Noun

chess piece (countable and uncountable, plural chess pieces)

(chess) Any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
(idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another.

Synonyms

chessman

Translations

any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess

Albanian: gur shahu m
Arabic: قِطْعَة f (qiṭʕa)
Armenian: շախմատի խաղաքար (šaxmati xaġakʻar), խաղաքար (hy) (xaġakʻar)
Belarusian: ша́хматная фігу́ра f (šáxmatnaja fihúra)
Bulgarian: ша́хматна фигу́ра f (šáhmatna figúra)
Catalan: peça d'escacs f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 棋子 (zh) (qízǐ), 象棋子 (xiàngqízǐ)
Czech: šachová figurka f
Danish: skakbrik (da) c
Dutch: schaakstuk (nl) n
Esperanto: ŝakpeco
Estonian: malend, malenupp, nupp (et)
Faroese: talvfólk n
Finnish: shakkinappula (fi), šakkinappula (fi)
French: pièce (fr) f, pièce d’échecs (fr) f
Galician: peza de xadrez f, trebello m (archaic)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Schachfigur (de) f, Figur (de) f
Greek: πεσσός (el) m (pessós)
Hebrew: כלי שחמט m (kli shakhmát)
Hindi: शतरंज का मोहर (śatrañj kā mohar)
Hungarian: sakkfigura (hu), sakkbábu
Icelandic: maður (is) m, taflmaður m, karl (is) m, skákmaður m
Ido: shakfiguro
Irish: fear fichille m
Italian: pezzo degli scacchi m
Japanese: 駒 (ja) (こま, koma), チェスの駒 (chesu no koma), チェスマン (chesuman)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: шахмат тасы (şaxmat tasy)
Khmer: កូនចត្រង្គ (koon cha’trɑng)
Korean: 체스 기물 (cheseu gimul), 기물 (ko) (gimul), 체스피스 (cheseupiseu), 말 (ko) (mal)
Latin: latro (la)
Latvian: šaha figūra f, šaha kauliņš m
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: шаховска фигу́ра f (šahovska figúra)
Malayalam: ചെസ്സ് കരു (cessŭ karu)
Marathi: बुद्धिबळातील सोंगटी (buddhibḷātīl soṅgṭī)
Navajo: naalzhoodíígíí
Nepali: चेसको गोटीहरू (cesko goṭīharū), बुद्धिचालको गोटीहरू (buddhicālko goṭīharū)
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Persian: مهره (fa) (mohre)
Polish: bierka (pl) f
Portuguese: peça de xadrez f
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: piesă de șah f, figură de șah f (rare)
Russian: ша́хматная фигу́ра f (šáxmatnaja figúra), фигу́ра (ru) f (figúra), фи́шка (ru) f (fíška)
Scottish Gaelic: fear-tàileisg m
Slovak: šachová figúrka f, kameň m
Spanish: pieza de ajedrez f, trebejo (es) m
Swedish: schackpjäs (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: satranç taşı (tr)
Ukrainian: ша́хова фігу́ра f (šáxova fihúra)
Vietnamese: con cờ (vi), quân cờ (vi)
Volapük: cögapiäd
Welsh: dyn gwyddbwyll m, darn gwyddbwyll m
Yiddish: פֿיגור f (figur), שאָכפֿיגור f (shokhfigur)

Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text)

king	queen	rook, castle	bishop	knight	pawn