"شاه‌مات" meaning in Persian

See شاه‌مات in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ʃɑːh.mɑːt] [Classical-Persian], [ʃɑːɦ.mɑːt̪] [Dari, formal], [ʃɑːɦ.mɑːt̪] [Dari, formal], [ʃɑː.mɑːt̪] [Kabuli], [ʃɔː.mɔːt̪] (note: Hazaragi), [ʃɒːɦ.mɒːt̪] [Iran, formal], [ʃɔɦ.mɔt̪] [Tajik, formal] Forms: شاهمات [canonical], šāh-māt [romanization], šâh-mât [romanization], spelling шоҳмот [Tajik], شهمات [alternative], شهمات [alternative], شاهمات [alternative], شاه مات [alternative]
Etymology: Literally, “the king is amazed”, from شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”). When the term passed into Arabic before being borrowed into Romance languages, the second element was interpreted as مَاتَ (māta, “to die”). The Tajik usage of шоҳмот (šohmot) to mean "chess" is a phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty). Etymology templates: {{etymon|fa|af|fa-cls>شَاه>king|fa-cls>مَات>māt|id=chess}}, {{m-g|the king is amazed}} “the king is amazed”, {{lit|the king is amazed}} Literally, “the king is amazed”, {{affix|fa|شاه|مات|t1=king|t2=stunned, amazed|tr1=šâh|tr2=mât}} شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”), {{cog|ar|-}} Arabic, {{psm|tg|ru|шахматы|nocap=1|nocat=1}} phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty) Head templates: {{head|fa|noun|||||||Tajik spelling|шоҳмот||<small>[Term?]</small>|f1tr=|f2tr=|f3tr=|head=شاهمات|tr=šāh-māt /šâh-mât|tr2=|tr3=}} شاهمات • (šāh-māt /šâh-mât) (Tajik spelling шоҳмот), {{fa-noun|cls=شَاهمَات|head=شاهمات}} شاهمات • (šāh-māt /šâh-mât) (Tajik spelling шоҳмот)
  1. (chess, now rare) checkmate Tags: archaic Synonyms: کیشمات
    Sense id: en-شاه‌مات-fa-noun-XZrRaXmT Categories (other): Chess, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Persian entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs, Persian entries with incorrect language header, Persian links with manual fragments, Persian links with redundant alt parameters, Persian links with redundant wikilinks, Persian terms in nonstandard scripts Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Persian entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs: 94 6 Disambiguation of Persian entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of Persian links with manual fragments: 88 12 Disambiguation of Persian links with redundant alt parameters: 94 6 Disambiguation of Persian links with redundant wikilinks: 96 4 Disambiguation of Persian terms in nonstandard scripts: 88 12 Topics: board-games, chess, games
  2. (Tajik) chess Tags: Tajik Synonyms: شطرنج
    Sense id: en-شاه‌مات-fa-noun-rHOdzNEh
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "af",
        "3": "fa-cls>شَاه>king",
        "4": "fa-cls>مَات>māt",
        "id": "chess"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "the king is amazed"
      },
      "expansion": "“the king is amazed”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "the king is amazed"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “the king is amazed”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "شاه",
        "3": "مات",
        "t1": "king",
        "t2": "stunned, amazed",
        "tr1": "šâh",
        "tr2": "mât"
      },
      "expansion": "شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”)",
      "name": "affix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tg",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "шахматы",
        "nocap": "1",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty)",
      "name": "psm"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “the king is amazed”, from شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”). When the term passed into Arabic before being borrowed into Romance languages, the second element was interpreted as مَاتَ (māta, “to die”). The Tajik usage of шоҳмот (šohmot) to mean \"chess\" is a phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "شاهمات",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "šāh-māt",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "šâh-mât",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelling шоҳмот",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شهمات",
      "roman": "šah-māt / šah-mât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شهمات",
      "roman": "šahmāt /šahmât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شاهمات",
      "roman": "šāhmāt /šâhmât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شاه مات",
      "roman": "šāh māt /šâh mât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "10": "шоҳмот",
        "11": "",
        "12": "<small>[Term?]</small>",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "Tajik spelling",
        "f1tr": "",
        "f2tr": "",
        "f3tr": "",
        "head": "شاهمات",
        "tr": "šāh-māt /šâh-mât",
        "tr2": "",
        "tr3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "شاهمات • (šāh-māt /šâh-mât) (Tajik spelling шоҳмот)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "cls": "شَاهمَات",
        "head": "شاهمات"
      },
      "expansion": "شاهمات • (šāh-māt /šâh-mât) (Tajik spelling шоҳмот)",
      "name": "fa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fa",
          "name": "Chess",
          "orig": "fa:Chess",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian terms in nonstandard scripts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "checkmate"
      ],
      "id": "en-شاه‌مات-fa-noun-XZrRaXmT",
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "checkmate",
          "checkmate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chess, now rare) checkmate"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "کیشمات"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "chess"
      ],
      "id": "en-شاه‌مات-fa-noun-rHOdzNEh",
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Tajik) chess"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "شطرنج"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Tajik"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑːh.mɑːt]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑːɦ.mɑːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑːɦ.mɑːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑː.mɑːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɔː.mɔːt̪]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɒːɦ.mɒːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɔɦ.mɔt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "H. W. Wilson Company",
    "Robert K. Barnhart"
  ],
  "word": "شاه‌مات"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Persian compound terms",
    "Persian entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian links with manual fragments",
    "Persian links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Persian links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Persian nouns",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms derived from Old Persian",
    "Persian terms in nonstandard scripts",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "af",
        "3": "fa-cls>شَاه>king",
        "4": "fa-cls>مَات>māt",
        "id": "chess"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "the king is amazed"
      },
      "expansion": "“the king is amazed”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "the king is amazed"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “the king is amazed”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "شاه",
        "3": "مات",
        "t1": "king",
        "t2": "stunned, amazed",
        "tr1": "šâh",
        "tr2": "mât"
      },
      "expansion": "شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”)",
      "name": "affix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tg",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "шахматы",
        "nocap": "1",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty)",
      "name": "psm"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “the king is amazed”, from شاه (šâh, “king”) + مات (mât, “stunned, amazed”). When the term passed into Arabic before being borrowed into Romance languages, the second element was interpreted as مَاتَ (māta, “to die”). The Tajik usage of шоҳмот (šohmot) to mean \"chess\" is a phono-semantic matching of Russian шахматы (šaxmaty).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "شاهمات",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "šāh-māt",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "šâh-mât",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelling шоҳмот",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شهمات",
      "roman": "šah-māt / šah-mât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شهمات",
      "roman": "šahmāt /šahmât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شاهمات",
      "roman": "šāhmāt /šâhmât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شاه مات",
      "roman": "šāh māt /šâh mât",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "10": "шоҳмот",
        "11": "",
        "12": "<small>[Term?]</small>",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "Tajik spelling",
        "f1tr": "",
        "f2tr": "",
        "f3tr": "",
        "head": "شاهمات",
        "tr": "šāh-māt /šâh-mât",
        "tr2": "",
        "tr3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "شاهمات • (šāh-māt /šâh-mât) (Tajik spelling шоҳмот)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "cls": "شَاهمَات",
        "head": "شاهمات"
      },
      "expansion": "شاهمات • (šāh-māt /šâh-mât) (Tajik spelling шоҳмот)",
      "name": "fa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with rare senses",
        "fa:Chess"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "checkmate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "checkmate",
          "checkmate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chess, now rare) checkmate"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "کیشمات"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "chess"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Tajik) chess"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "شطرنج"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Tajik"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑːh.mɑːt]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑːɦ.mɑːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑːɦ.mɑːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɑː.mɑːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɔː.mɔːt̪]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɒːɦ.mɒːt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɔɦ.mɔt̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "H. W. Wilson Company",
    "Robert K. Barnhart"
  ],
  "word": "شاه‌مات"
}

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