köken: Inherited from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king [is] conquered”). Perhaps conflated with Arabic مَاتَ (māta, “to die”).
impasse (deadlock or stalemate situation) · stalemate (forcing the opponent to play with a card of a lower value and then reraising the card with one of a higher value)
çekim: çoğul impasy · tamlayan impasu
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. French im- French passe French impassebor. Polish impas Borrowed from French impasse.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit मत्ता (mattā), from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mā́tram, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁-tro-m (“measurement”).
köken: From Dutch schaakmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Persian شاه مات (“šâh mât, the king is dead”). Equivalent to syah + mati. Doublet of emat.