xadrez

Aragonese edit

From Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj), from Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj, “chess”), from Persian (šatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/, “chess”), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (cátur-aṅga, literally “four parts”) (of an army: king, elephants, horses, foot soldiers).

xadrez m (uncountable)

“ajedrez”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “xadrez”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Attested from the 13th century (assederez, açedrẽche, xedrez). From Andalusian Arabic الشَطْرَنْج (aš-šaṭranj), from Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj, “chess”), from Persian (šatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/, “chess”), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (cátur-aṅga, “four parts" of an army: king, elephants, horses, foot soldiers”). Cognate with Portuguese xadrez and Spanish ajedrez.

xadrez m (plural xadreces)

chess
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 515:
  Et Achiles preçaua todo muy pouco quanto lle eles dizíã, et nõ paraua por eles mentes, nẽ lles rrespondía a cousa que lle disesem, ante sij́a jogando o xedrez cõ hũ seu caualeyro
  And Achiles didn't care about what they said nor did he mind them, nor did he answered anything they said, but rather he was just playing chess with one of his knights

“xedrez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“assederez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“assederez” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“xadrez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“xadrez” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“xadrez” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.