γκέλα

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γκέλα • (gkéla) f

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γκέλα • (gkéla) f

→⇒? Albanian: kacagjelë

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?], whence Turkish gele (“dice roll that makes a player skip a turn in backgammon”), ultimately akin to gelmek (“to come”).

cog

(backgammon) dice roll that makes a player skip a turn


pick and pass

en-verb

pick and pass (third-person singular simple present picks and passes, present participle picking and passing, simple past and past participle picked and passed)

picks and passes (present singular third-person)
picking and passing (participle present)
picked and passed (participle past)
picked and passed (past)

(backgammon) To hit the opponent's blot (exposed piece) and take the hitting checker to safety, within a single play.


یك

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یك • (yek) (definite accusative یكی (yeği), plural یكلر (yekler))

yek (romanization)
یكی (accusative definite)
یكلر (plural)

Turkish: yek

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَک (yak), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾywk'), 𐫏𐫐 (yk /ēwak/), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *Háywah (“one”).

der

(backgammon) the ace of dice, especially in tavla or backgammon


backgammoner

I strove to enlist the sympathies of the backgammoners and the crocheters, even the embroiderers, but in vain; I found with chagrin that I could not awaken one throb of interest in their unfeeling breasts, regarding my “geranium lady.”

1898 June, Caroline Ticknor, “The Geranium Lady”, in New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XVIII, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Warren F. Kellogg, […], page 498, column 1:

The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner.

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 560:

A young intercontinental crowd injects a bit of life into old backgammoners.

1986, Sue Carpenter, edited by Lord Lichfield [i.e., Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield], Courvoisier’s Book of the Best, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 74, column 3:

Numbers are somewhat diminished at breakfast—Peter and Ellen have their own table, so do the backgammoners, Liz is attending a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem, and Dan and Davide are at a wedding in Wales, so we just have Georgie, Janet, Hanna, and Ronnie.

2012, Anthony Linick, “September, 2007”, in A Doggy Day in London Town (Life Among the Dog People of Paddington Rec; IV), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 77:


ace point

(backgammon) The player's first point on the board.


side prime

(backgammon) A prime (blockade) of six consecutive points.