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canasta
English
Etymology
From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??næst?/
Noun
canasta (plural canastas)
- (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492,
- “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
- “Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn?t know you could play that silly game.”
- 2004, Gregory Bateson, 15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy, Henry Bial (editor), The Performance Studies Reader, page 130,
- Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
- 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page,
- Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492,
- (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
- 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47,
- Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
- 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47,
Translations
Anagrams
- Castana
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish canasta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ka??n?s.ta?/
- Hyphenation: ca?nas?ta
- Rhymes: -?sta?
Noun
canasta f (plural canasta's)
- (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
- (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)
Finnish
Alternative forms
- kanasta
Etymology
From Spanish canasta.
Noun
canasta
- canasta (card game)
- canasta (meld of seven cards in above)
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.nas.ta/
Noun
canasta f (uncountable)
- canasta
Further reading
- “canasta” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish canasta.
Noun
canasta f (plural canastas)
- (card games) canasta
References
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin canistrum. Cognate with English canister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?nasta/, [ka?nas.t?a]
Noun
canasta f (plural canastas)
- basket
- Synonyms: cesto, cesta
- (card games) canasta
- (basketball) basket, hoop
- (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)
Derived terms
- canasta de mimbre (“wicker basket”)
Related terms
- canasto
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mahjong
English
Alternative forms
- majiang
- mah-jong
- mahjongg, mah-jongg, mah jongg
- Mah Jong
Etymology
From Cantonese ????? (maa4 zoeng3) (standard Mandarin: ????? (májiàng)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m???d???/, /m??????/
- (US) IPA(key): /m??d???/, /m?????/
- (cot-caught merger) IPA(key): /m??d???/, /m?????/
Noun
mahjong (uncountable)
- A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
- A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.
Synonyms
- (a solitaire game): mahjong solitaire
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Unicode/Mahjong Tiles
Finnish
Noun
mahjong
- mahjong (game for four)
- mahjong (solitaire)
Declension
Portuguese
Noun
mahjong m (uncountable)
- mahjong (Chinese tile game)
Swedish
Noun
mahjong n
- mahjong (Chinese tile game)
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