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eschec et mat
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Old French
1.1
Etymology
1.2
Noun
1.3
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Old French
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Etymology
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Borrowed from
Arabic
شاه مات
(
šāh māt
)
, itself borrowed from
Persian
.
Noun
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eschec
et
mat
m
(
chess
)
checkmate
References
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Godefroy, Frédéric
,
Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du
IX
e
au
XV
e
siècle
(1881)
(
eschec
, supplement)