tsek

Short for English check, from Middle English chek, chekke, borrowed from Old French eschek, eschec, eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic شَاه (šāh), borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”).

• Hyphenation: ma‧te

tsek

1. a checkmark

tsek

1. to check; to mark with a checkmark
2. (chess) to check; to make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check

tsek

1. (chess) check

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tsek.

Borrowed from English check. Doublet of hake, tseke, and tses.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃek/ [ˈt͡ʃɛk̚]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈtsek/ [ˈt̪sɛk̚]
• Rhymes: -ek
• Syllabification: tsek

tsek (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜃ᜔)

1. check mark
2. (banking) check; cheque

   Synonym: tseke

3. act of checking
4. (chess) check

   Synonym: hake

• “tsek”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018