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Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic شاه مات (šāh māt), itself borrowed from Persian.
Noun
eschec et mat m
- (chess) checkmate
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (eschec, supplement)