chess in Malay
catur
/t͡ʃɛs/
chess in Malay: catur, sekak. In English, chess means a board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Malay words for chess
- two-player board game
- catur, sekak
English meaning of chess
- noun A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
- noun Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
- noun One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
Synonyms of chess
chess in other languages
- chess in Hindi
- chess in Tamil
- chess in Marathi
- chess in Urdu
- chess in Bengali
- chess in Telugu
- chess in Malayalam
- chess in Kannada
- chess in Punjabi
- chess in Gujarati
- chess in Odia
- chess in Sanskrit
- chess in Sinhala
- chess in Assamese
- chess in Nepali
- chess in Pashto
- chess in Tagalog
- chess in Arabic
- chess in Indonesian
- chess in Thai
- chess in Vietnamese
- chess in Myanmar
Questions about chess in Malay
- What is the meaning of chess in Malay?
- Chess in Malay is catur, sekak.
- Apakah maksud chess dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Chess: catur, sekak.
- What does chess mean in English?
- Chess means a board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chess (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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