chaturanga
chaturanga noun: an ancient Indian game, its rules not fully known, presumed to be the ancestor of chess and similar games.
Noun
chaturanga (uncountable)
chaturanga meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada
chaturanga in Hindi
- chaturanga
- चतुरंग caturaṅg
chaturanga in Malayalam
- chaturanga; an ancient Indian strategy game; a kind of chess
- ചതുരംഗം caturaṅgaṁ
chaturanga in Kannada
- ಚತುರಂಗ, ಚದುರಂಗ
Forms of chaturanga
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Origin of chaturanga
Borrowed from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).
Questions about chaturanga
- What does chaturanga mean?
- Chaturanga means an ancient Indian game, its rules not fully known, presumed to be the ancestor of chess and similar games.
- What is chaturanga in Hindi?
- Chaturanga in Hindi is चतुरंग (caturaṅg). See Chaturanga meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chaturanga?
- Chaturanga is a noun.
Words near chaturanga in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chaturanga (page history and authors); चतुरंग (Hindi) (page history and authors); ചതുരംഗം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); chaturanga (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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