chess piece

See also: chesspiece and chess-piece

English

chess pieces

Alternative forms

• chesspiece, chess-piece

Noun

chess piece (countable and uncountable, plural chess pieces)

1. (chess) Any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
2. (idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another.

Synonyms

• chessman

Translations

any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess

• Albanian: gur shahu m
• Arabic: قِطْعَة f (qiṭʕa)
• Armenian: շախմատի խաղաքար (šaxmati xaġakʻar), խաղաքար (hy) (xaġakʻar)
• Belarusian: ша́хматная фігу́ра f (šáxmatnaja fihúra)
• Bulgarian: ша́хматна фигу́ра f (šáhmatna figúra)
• Catalan: peça d'escacs f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棋子 (zh) (qízǐ), 象棋子 (xiàngqízǐ)

• Czech: šachová figurka f
• Danish: skakbrik (da) c
• Dutch: schaakstuk (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝakpeco
• Estonian: malend, malenupp, nupp (et)
• Faroese: talvfólk n
• Finnish: shakkinappula (fi), šakkinappula (fi)
• French: pièce (fr) f, pièce d’échecs (fr) f
• Galician: peza de xadrez f, trebello m (archaic)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schachfigur (de) f, Figur (de) f
• Greek: πεσσός (el) m (pessós)
• Hebrew: כלי שחמט m (kli shakhmát)
• Hindi: शतरंज का मोहर (śatrañj kā mohar)
• Hungarian: sakkfigura (hu), sakkbábu
• Icelandic: maður (is) m, taflmaður m, karl (is) m, skákmaður m
• Ido: shakfiguro
• Irish: fear fichille m
• Italian: pezzo degli scacchi m
• Japanese: 駒 (ja) (こま, koma), チェスの駒 (chesu no koma), チェスマン (chesuman)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: шахмат тасы (şaxmat tasy)
• Khmer: កូនចត្រង្គ (koon cha’trɑng)
• Korean: 체스 기물 (cheseu gimul), 기물 (ko) (gimul), 체스피스 (cheseupiseu), 말 (ko) (mal)
• Latin: latro (la)
• Latvian: šaha figūra f, šaha kauliņš m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: шаховска фигу́ра f (šahovska figúra)
• Malayalam: ചെസ്സ് കരു (cessŭ karu)
• Marathi: बुद्धिबळातील सोंगटी (buddhibḷātīl soṅgṭī)
• Navajo: naalzhoodíígíí
• Nepali: चेसको गोटीहरू (cesko goṭīharū), बुद्धिचालको गोटीहरू (buddhicālko goṭīharū)
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مهره (fa) (mohre)
• Polish: bierka (pl) f
• Portuguese: peça de xadrez f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: piesă de șah f, figură de șah f (rare)
• Russian: ша́хматная фигу́ра f (šáxmatnaja figúra), фигу́ра (ru) f (figúra), фи́шка (ru) f (fíška)
• Scottish Gaelic: fear-tàileisg m
• Slovak: šachová figúrka f, kameň m
• Spanish: pieza de ajedrez f, trebejo (es) m
• Swedish: schackpjäs (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: satranç taşı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ша́хова фігу́ра f (šáxova fihúra)
• Vietnamese: con cờ (vi), quân cờ (vi)
• Volapük: cögapiäd
• Welsh: dyn gwyddbwyll m, darn gwyddbwyll m
• Yiddish: פֿיגור f (figur), שאָכפֿיגור f (shokhfigur)

See also

• Appendix:Chess pieces
• Chess pieces on Wikipedia.Wikipedia