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English
Etymology
Probably from back Middle English gamen Old English gamen ( “ amusement, game ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
A backgammon board shown in starting position. 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 , [ … ] 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 ) 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 .
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Translations
board game
Abkhaz: ана́рд ( anárd )
Albanian: tavllë (sq) f
Arabic: طَاوِلَة (ar) f ( ṭāwila ) , نَرْد (ar) m ( nard ) , لُعْبَةُ طَاوِلَة f ( luʕbatu ṭāwila ) , طَاوِلَةُ زَهْر f ( ṭāwilatu zahr )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܵܪܕ݇ܬܲܚܬܵܐ f ( nārtaḥtā ) , ܬܲܚܬܝܼܢܵܪܕ f ( taḥtīnārd ) , ܬܲܚܬܝܼܣܘܼܠ f ( taḥtīsūl ) , ܛܵܘܠܵܐ m ( ṭāwlā )
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נַרְדְּשִׁיר m ( nardəšīr )
Jewish Neo-Aramaic: שש־בש ( šeš-beš ) , טאולא ( ṭāwḷa )
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 Alemannic German: Backgammon 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
Irish: táiplis mhór 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 (ja) ( bakkugyamon )
Kazakh: нарды ( nardı )
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
Mirandese: gamon m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: backgammon n
Pashto: نرد m ( nard )
Persian:
Iranian Persian: نَرْد ( nard ) , تَخْتِه نَرْد ( taxte nard ) , نَرْدَشیر ( nardašir )
Middle Persian: [script needed] ( nywʾlthšyl /nēw-ardaxšēr/ )
Polish: tryktrak (pl) m inan nardy nvir pl
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
Latin: 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)
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Verb
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.
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Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from English backgammon
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon m uncountable )
backgammon ( board game )
Finnish
Etymology
From English backgammon
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈbækɡɑm(ː)on/ , [ˈbækɡɑ̝m(ː)o̞n] Rhymes: -ækɡɑmon
Syllabification(key ) : back‧gam‧mon
Hyphenation(key ) : back‧gam‧mon
Noun
backgammon
backgammon
Declension
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English backgammon
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon m uncountable
backgammon
See also
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon
Pronunciation
Noun
backgammon m uncountable
backgammon Synonyms: tric trac tavola reale
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /baɡˈɡamon/ [baɣ̞ˈɣ̞a.mõn] Rhymes: -amon
Syllabification: back‧gam‧mon
Noun
backgammon m uncountable
backgammon Synonyms: chanchullo chaquete tablas reales
Usage notes
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.
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