شاهمات
Persian
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editEtymology
editLiterally, “the king is amazed”, from شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”). When the term passed into Arabic before being borrowed into Romance languages, the second element was interpreted as مَاتَ (māta, “to die”).[1] The Tajik usage of шоҳмот (šohmot) to mean "chess" is a phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʃɑːh.mɑːt]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃɒːɦ.mɒːt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃɔɦ.mɔt̪]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | šāh-māt |
Dari reading? | šāh-māt |
Iranian reading? | šâh-mât |
Tajik reading? | šoh-mot |
Noun
editReferences
edit- ^ Robert K. Barnhart, editor (1988), Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H. W. Wilson Co.