different between backgammon vs tavla

English

Etymology

Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?b?kg?m?n, IPA^(key): /?bæk.?æm.?n/

Noun

backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)

1. 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.
2. (backgammon) A 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.

Related terms

• gammon

Translations

See also

• tick-tack
• tric-trac, trick-track

Verb

backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)

1. 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.

Further reading

• backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon (board game)

Finnish

Etymology

From English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk??m(?)on/, [?bæk??m(?)o?n]
• Syllabification: back?gam?mon

Noun

backgammon

1. backgammon

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak.?a.m?n/

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

See also

• trictrac

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: tric trac, tavola reale

Spanish

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: chanchullo, chaquete, tablas reales

English

Etymology

From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?vlä, t?vlä, IPA^(key): /te?vl??/, /tævl??/
• Hyphenation: tav?la

Noun

tavla (usually uncountable, plural tavlas)

1. (backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
   • 1978, Past the tavern and hear the joggle of tavlas — Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)

Anagrams

• lavta, talav

Italiot Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f

1. table

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian tàvula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?v.la/

Noun

tavla f (plural twavel, paucal tavliet)

1. plank, board

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tavlen m

Noun

tavla f

1. definite feminine singular of tavle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tavla f

1. definite singular of tavle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (tavla), ?????? (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tàvla f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tavla
2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon

Declension

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

Pronunciation

Noun

tavla c

1. (art) a painting; piece of painted canvas
2. a picture hanging on a wall
3. a hard, flat surface for writing or drawing, for example a blackboard (svarta tavlan) or whiteboard
4. a tablet
5. (colloquial) A glaring mistake, a blunder

Declension

Related terms

• anslagstavla
• piltavla
• tavelram

Descendants

• ? Finnish: taulu

See also

• målning
• tabell

Anagrams

• avlat, avtal

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (tavla), ?????? (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla

1. tavla
2. (backgammon) backgammon