Where the Romanian word “șah” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.m.):
Din tc. șah. Cf. germ. Schach.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.n.):
Din tc. șah. Cf. germ. Schach.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- German (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- German Schach ← Persian شاه
- In film dialogue
- 16 times per million words · number 3,014 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 27 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 8.2 1.3 6.0 11 - Swap in a synonym
- eșec (French), sultan (Turkish), imobiliza (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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