backgammon
See also: Backgammon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: ʹbăkgămən, IPA(key): /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)
- A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 90:
- "I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-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) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]board game
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]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.
Further reading
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backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English backgammon.
Noun
[edit]backgammon m (uncountable)
- backgammon (board game)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English backgammon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]backgammon
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of backgammon (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | backgammon | backgammonit | |
| genitive | backgammonin | backgammonien backgammoneiden backgammoneitten | |
| partitive | backgammonia | backgammoneita backgammoneja | |
| illative | backgammoniin | backgammoneihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | backgammon | backgammonit | |
| accusative | nom. | backgammon | backgammonit |
| gen. | backgammonin | ||
| genitive | backgammonin | backgammonien backgammoneiden backgammoneitten | |
| partitive | backgammonia | backgammoneita backgammoneja | |
| inessive | backgammonissa | backgammoneissa | |
| elative | backgammonista | backgammoneista | |
| illative | backgammoniin | backgammoneihin | |
| adessive | backgammonilla | backgammoneilla | |
| ablative | backgammonilta | backgammoneilta | |
| allative | backgammonille | backgammoneille | |
| essive | backgammonina | backgammoneina | |
| translative | backgammoniksi | backgammoneiksi | |
| abessive | backgammonitta | backgammoneitta | |
| instructive | — | backgammonein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “backgammon”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English backgammon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]backgammon m (uncountable)
See also
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.
Noun
[edit]backgammon m (uncountable)
- backgammon
- Synonyms: tric trac, tavola reale
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]backgammon m (uncountable)
- backgammon
- Synonyms: chanchullo, chaquete, tablas reales
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal 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.
Further reading
[edit]- “backgammon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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