ajedrez

Spanish

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Alternative forms

• axedrez (obsolete)
• aljedrez (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish axedrez, borrowed from Arabic شِطْرَنْج (šiṭranj) via Andalusian Arabic, from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲‎𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (cʾt‎lʾng /⁠čatrang⁠/), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /axeˈdɾeθ/ [a.xeˈð̞ɾeθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /axeˈdɾes/ [a.xeˈð̞ɾes] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: a‧je‧drez

Noun

ajedrez m (plural ajedreces)

1. chess
   • 2023 April, “Leyes Del Ajedrez 2023”, in FIDE‎, page 3:

     La partida de ajedrez se juega entre dos adversarios que mueven alternativamente sus propias piezas sobre un tablero cuadrado, llamado “tablero de ajedrez”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• ajedrecista
• ajedrecístico
• ajedrez rápido
• ajedrezado

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: ahedres
• → Cebuano: ahedres
• → Hiligaynon: ahedres
• → Tagalog: ahedres

See also

Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text)
rey	dama, reina	torre, roque	alfil	caballo	peón

Further reading

• “ajedrez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025