xadrez

From Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj), from Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj, “chess”), from Persian شترنگ (šatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/, “chess”), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (cátur-aṅga, literally “four parts”) (of an army: king, elephants, horses, foot soldiers).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaˈdɾeθ/
• Rhymes: -eθ
• Syllabification: xa‧drez

xadrez m (uncountable)

1. chess

• “ajedrez”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “xadrez”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• axedrez

Attested from the 13th century (assederez, açedrẽche, xedrez). From Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj), from Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj, “chess”), from Persian شترنگ (šatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/, “chess”), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (cátur-aṅga, “four parts" of an army: king, elephants, horses, foot soldiers”). Cognate with Portuguese xadrez and Spanish ajedrez.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaˈðɾeθ/, (western) /ʃaˈðɾes/

xadrez m (plural xadreces)

1. chess
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 515:

     Et Achiles preçaua todo muy pouco quanto lle eles dizíã, et nõ paraua por eles mentes, nẽ lles rrespondía a cousa que lle disesem, ante sij́a jogando o xedrez cõ hũ seu caualeyro

     And Achiles didn't care about what they said nor did he mind them, nor did he answered anything they said, but rather he was just playing chess with one of his knights

• “xedrez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “assederez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “assederez” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “xadrez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xadrez” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xadrez” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• axadrez

From Old Galician-Portuguese axadrez, enxadrez, from Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj), from Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj, “chess”), from Persian شترنگ (šatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/, “chess”), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (cátur-aṅga, literally “four parts”) (of an army: king, elephants, horses, foot soldiers).

Cognate with Galician xadrez, Asturian axedrez, Mirandese xadreç, Spanish ajedrez and Aragonese axedrez.

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• Hyphenation: xa‧drez

xadrez m (uncountable)

1. chess
2. checkered pattern
3. (metonymically) jail; prison

xadrez m or f (plural xadrezes)

1. checkered

   Synonyms: axadrezado, quadriculado

• enxadrista
• enxadrismo