سطرنج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شترنگ (šatrang).

Noun

سطرنج • (satranc)

1. chess, a board game for two players
2. checkered pattern, like the one of a chessboard

Derived terms

• سطرنجلو (satranclı, “checkered, crisscross”)

Descendants

• Turkish: satranç
• → Romanian: șotron

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 2614
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “satranç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سطرنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1058