Probably fromback Middle English gamen Old English gamen ( “ amusement, game ” ) .
A backgammon board shown in starting position. backgammon (countable anduncountable plural backgammons
Aboard game for twoplayers in which each has 15stones which move between 24triangular points according to the roll of apair ofdice ; theobject is to move all of one's pieces around, andbear them off the board.1838 (date written),L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon] , chapter VII, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. [ … ] , volume I, London:Henry Colburn , [ … ] 1842 ,→OCLC page90 :"I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer'sbackgammon -board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.
( backgammon ) victory in the game when theloser has not borne off astone , and still has one or more stones in thewinner 's inner home row or on thebar .board game
Abkhaz:ана́рд ( anárd ) Albanian:tavllë (sq) f Alemannic German:Backgammon n Arabic:طَاوِلَة (ar) f ( ṭāwila ) ,نَرْد (ar) m ( nard ) ,لُعْبَةُ طَاوِلَة f ( luʕbatu ṭāwila ) ,طَاوِلَةُ زَهْر f ( ṭāwilatu zahr ) Armenian:նարդի (hy) ( nardi ) Asturian:backgammon m Azerbaijani:nərd (az) ,şeş-beş Belarusian:на́рды m pl ( nárdy ) Bulgarian:та́бла (bg) f ( tábla ) Catalan:backgammon m Chechen:нардаш ( nardaš ) Chinese:Mandarin:雙陸棋 / 双陆棋 (zh) ( shuānglùqí ) Czech:vrhcáby (cs) m pl Danish:backgammon (da) n Dutch:backgammon (nl) n Estonian:triktrak Finnish:backgammon (fi) French:backgammon (fr) m Georgian:ნარდი (ka) ( nardi ) German:Backgammon (de) n Greek:τάβλι (el) n ( távli ) Hebrew:שֵׁשׁ בֵּשׁ (he) m ( shesh besh ) Hindi:बैकगैमौन ? ( baikgaimaun ) ,नर्द (hi) m ( nard ) Hungarian:ostábla (hu) Icelandic:kotra f Italian:tavola reale (it) f backgammon (it) m tric trac m tricche tracche m sbaraglino (it) m sbaraglio (it) m Japanese:バックギャモン ( bakkugyamon ) Kazakh:нарды ( nardy ) Korean:백개먼 ( baekgaemeon ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:nerd (ku) Kyrgyz:нарды ( nardı ) Latin:nerdiludium m Latvian:nardi pl Lithuanian:nardai pl Luxembourgish:Backgammon n Macedonian:та́бла f ( tábla ) Malay:backgammon Middle Persian:[script needed] ( nywʾlthšyl /nēw-ardaxšēr/ ) Mirandese:gamon m Norwegian:Bokmål:backgammon n Pashto:نرد m ( nard ) Persian:Iranian Persian:نَرْد ( nard ) ,تَخْتِه نَرْد ( taxte nard ) ,نَرْدَشیر ( nardašir ) Polish:tryktrak (pl) m nardy nvir Portuguese:gamão (pt) m Punjabi:ਬੈਕਗੈਮਨ ( baikgaiman ) Romanian:table (ro) f pl Russian:на́рды (ru) m pl ( nárdy ) ,триктра́к (ru) m ( triktrák ) Scottish Gaelic:tàileasg m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:та̀вла f триктра̏к m Roman:tàvla (sh) f triktrȁk (sh) m Slovak:backgammon m Slovene:backgammon m Spanish:backgammon (es) m Swedish:backgammon (sv) n Tagalog:bakgamon Tajik:нард ( nard ) Thai:แบ็กแกมมอน Turkish:tavla (tr) n nert Ukrainian:на́рди m pl ( nárdy ) Urdu:نَرْد m ( nard ) ,تَخْتَۂ نَرْد m ( taxta-yi nard ) Uzbek:narda (uz)
backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons present participle backgammoning simple past and past participle backgammoned
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar. Borrowed fromEnglish backgammon
backgammon m uncountable )
backgammon ( board game ) FromEnglish backgammon
IPA (key ) : /ˈbækɡɑm(ː)on/ ,[ˈbækɡɑ̝m(ː)o̞n] Rhymes:-ækɡɑmon Syllabification(key ) :back‧gam‧mon Hyphenation(key ) :back‧gam‧mon backgammon
backgammon Borrowed fromEnglish backgammon
backgammon m uncountable
backgammon Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish backgammon
backgammon m uncountable
backgammon Synonyms: tric trac tavola reale Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish backgammon
IPA (key ) : /baɡˈɡamon/ [baɣ̞ˈɣ̞a.mõn] Rhymes:-amon Syllabification:back‧gam‧mon backgammon m uncountable
backgammon Synonyms: chanchullo chaquete tablas reales According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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