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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شترنگ (šatrang).
Noun
سطرنج • (satranc)
- chess, a board game for two players
- checkered pattern, like the one of a chessboard
Derived terms
- سطرنجلو (satranclı, “checkered, crisscross”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “satranç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4088
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سطرنج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 679
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Latrunculus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 922
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سطرنج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2614
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “satranç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سطرنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1058