skak

From Middle Dutch scaec, from Old French eschec, from Vulgar Latin *scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king in chess”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/).

• IPA^(key): /skak/, [sɡ̊ɑɡ̊]

skak c (singular definite skakken, plural indefinite skakker)

1. (uncountable) chess
2. (chess) check

• “skak” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “skak” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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• IPA^(key): /skaːk/

  Rhymes: -aːk

skak n (genitive singular skaks, no plural)

1. shaking

• skaka

skak

1. imperative of skaka

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skak n

1. scolding

skak

1. second-person singular imperative of skaka

• “skak”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press