check → شِيك, فَحْص, قُرَادَة, يَضِعُ عَلَامَة, يَفْحَصُ odškrtnutí, ověření, šek, zatrhnout, zkontrolovat check, hak, sætte hak ved, tjek, tjekke ankreuzen, Häkchen, Kontrolle, prüfen, Scheck έλεγχος, ελέγχω, επιταγή, σημάδι, τσεκάρω cheque, comprobar, control, controlar, marca, marcar ruksata, ruksi, sekki, tarkistaa, tarkistus chèque, coche, cocher, vérification, vérifier ček, kucati, kvačica, provjera, provjeriti assegno, controllare, controllo, segno di spunta, ticchettare 小切手, 照合, 照合の印, 照合の印をつける, 調べる. Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd. Check first meant "counterfoil" and then came to mean anything, such as a bill or bank draft, with a counterfoil-or eventually even without one.Ĭollins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 check One such means was a counterfoil, a part of a check, for example, retained by the issuer as documentation of a transaction.
Checkmate, the next stage after check, goes back to the Arabic phrase shāh māt, meaning "the king is dead." Through a complex development having to do with senses that evolved from the notion of checking the king, check came to mean something used to ensure accuracy or authenticity.
Chess itself comes from a plural form of the Old French word that gave us the word check. The Persian word in this sense, after passing through Arabic, probably Old Spanish, and then Old French, came into Middle English as chek about seven hundred years ago.
One said shāh as a warning when the opponent's king was under attack. The Persian word shāh was also a term used in chess, a game played in Persia long before it was introduced to Europe. Shah, as one might think, is a borrowing into English of the Persian title for the monarch of that country. Word History: The words check, chess, and shah are all related.
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