siach

Welsh

Etymology

From siachmat, by analogy with English check from checkmate. A learned borrowing from Arabic ⁧شَاه مَاتَ⁩ (šāh māta), from Persian ⁧شاه مات⁩ (šâh mât, “the king [is] amazed”).

Noun

siach m (plural siachau, not mutable)

  1. (chess) check
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