шахматы

• šachmaty, szachmaty — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Inherited from Old East Slavic шахматꙑ (šaxmaty).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʂaxmatɨ]

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• Rhymes: -axmatɨ
• Hyphenation: шах‧ма‧ты

ша́хматы • (šáxmaty) m inan pl (genitive ша́хмат, plural only, relational adjective ша́хматны)

1. chess
2. chess piece

• “шахматы”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “шахматы” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

Inherited from Old East Slavic шахматꙑ (šaxmaty), probably from Middle High German schāch unde mat (compare German Schachmatt (“checkmate”)), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king is conquered”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʂaxmətɨ]

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ша́хматы • (šáxmaty) f inan pl (genitive ша́хмат, plural only, relational adjective ша́хматный, pejorative шахмати́шки)

1. chess (two-player board game)

• гексагона́льные ша́хматы (geksagonálʹnyje šáxmaty, “hexagonal chess”)

• мат (mat)
• шах (šax)
• шахмати́ст (šaxmatíst), шахмати́стка (šaxmatístka)

• → Hebrew: שחמט (shakhmát)
• → Ingrian: šahmatat
• → Tajik: шоҳмот (šohmot) (semantic loan)
• → Azerbaijani: şahmat (semantic loan)

• рокиро́вка (rokiróvka)
• ход конём (xod konjóm)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шахматы”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “шахматы”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 406

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “шахматы”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.