backgammon
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A backgammon board shown in starting position.
See also: Backgammon
English
Etymology
Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)
- A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , published 1842, →OCLC, page 90:
- "I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.
- (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
board game
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Verb
backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)
- To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
Further reading
backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from English backgammon.
Noun
backgammon m (uncountable)
- backgammon (board game)
Finnish
Etymology
From English backgammon.
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon
Declension
| Inflection of backgammon (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | backgammon | backgammonit | ||
| genitive | backgammonin | backgammonien backgammoneiden backgammoneitten | ||
| partitive | backgammonia | backgammoneita backgammoneja | ||
| illative | backgammoniin | backgammoneihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | backgammon | backgammonit | ||
| accusative | nom. | backgammon | backgammonit | |
| gen. | backgammonin | |||
| genitive | backgammonin | backgammonien backgammoneiden backgammoneitten | ||
| partitive | backgammonia | backgammoneita backgammoneja | ||
| inessive | backgammonissa | backgammoneissa | ||
| elative | backgammonista | backgammoneista | ||
| illative | backgammoniin | backgammoneihin | ||
| adessive | backgammonilla | backgammoneilla | ||
| ablative | backgammonilta | backgammoneilta | ||
| allative | backgammonille | backgammoneille | ||
| essive | backgammonina | backgammoneina | ||
| translative | backgammoniksi | backgammoneiksi | ||
| abessive | backgammonitta | backgammoneitta | ||
| instructive | — | backgammonein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Further reading
- “backgammon”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English backgammon.
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon m (uncountable)
See also
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.
Noun
backgammon m (uncountable)
- backgammon
- Synonyms: tric trac, tavola reale
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon m (uncountable)
- backgammon
- Synonyms: chanchullo, chaquete, tablas reales
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “backgammon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014