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draughts
- plural of draught
draughts (uncountable)
- (board games, British, Australia, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
- A mild vesicatory.
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game for two players
- Albanian: damë (sq) f
- Arabic: دَامَا f (dāmā), دَامَة f (dāma), ضَامَة f (ḍāma)
- Moroccan Arabic: ضامة (ḍāma)
- Armenian: շաշկի (hy) (šaški)
- Azerbaijani: dama
- Basque: dama-joko
- Belarusian: ша́шкі f pl (šáški)
- Bengali: চেকারস (cekars)
- Bulgarian: да́ма (bg) f (dáma)
- Burmese: ကျားထိုးခြင်း (kya:htui:hkrang:)
- Catalan: dames (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 國際跳棋／国际跳棋 (guójì tiàoqí), 跳棋 (zh) (tiàoqí)
- Chuukese: sikang
- Czech: dáma (cs) f
- Danish: dam (da) c or n
- Dutch: damspel (nl) n
- Esperanto: damludo
- Estonian: kabe (et), kabemäng, tamka, tamkamäng
- Finnish: tammi (fi), tammipeli (fi)
- French: jeu de dames (fr) m, dames (fr) f pl
- Galician: damas f pl
- Georgian: შაში (šaši)
- German: Dame (de) n, Damespiel (de) n
- Greek: ντάμα (el) f (ntáma)
- Ancient: πεσσεία f (pesseía)
- Hebrew: דַּמְקָה (he) f (dámka)
- Hindi: चेकर्स m (cekars), ड्राफ़्टस m (ḍrāfṭas)
- Hungarian: dáma (hu)
- Icelandic: dammur m, dammtafl n
- Ido: dami (io)
- Indonesian: dam (id)
- Italian: dama (it) f
- Japanese: チェッカー (chekkā), 西洋碁 (せいようご, seiyōgo)
- Kazakh: дойбы (kk) (doiby)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 체커 (chekeo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دامە (ckb) (dame)
- Northern Kurdish: dame (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: дойбу (ky) (doybu)
- Lao: ຫມາກດາມ (māk dām)
- Latvian: dambrete
- Lithuanian: saškės
- Macedonian: да́ма f (dáma)
- Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: dam (ms), damdam
- Maori: mū
- Maranao: dama
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: даам (mn) (daam)
- Navajo: naalzhoodí
- Nganasan: нанудеда (nanudeda)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dam (no) m
- Nynorsk: dam m
- Persian: چکرز (fa) (čekerz), دام (fa) (dâm)
- Plautdietsch: Daumbrat n
- Polish: warcaby (pl) f pl
- Portuguese: damas (pt) f pl
- Romanian: dame (ro) f pl
- Russian: ша́шки (ru) f pl (šáški)
- Scottish Gaelic: dàmais f, tàileasg m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: да́ма f
- Roman: dáma (sh) f
- Slovak: dáma (sk) f
- Slovene: dama f
- Southern Altai: шатра (šatra)
- Spanish: damas (es) f pl
- Swahili: dama, drafti
- Swedish: damspel, dam (sv)
- Tagalog: dama
- Tajik: шашки (šaški)
- Tamil: அட்டாங்கம் (ta) (aṭṭāṅkam)
- Thai: หมากฮอส (th) (màak-hɔ́t)
- Tibetan: མཆོང་སྒྲིག་མིག་མངས (mchong sgrig mig mangs)
- Turkish: dama (tr)
- Turkmen: şaşka
- Ukrainian: ша́шки f pl (šášky)
- Urdu: ڈرافٹس m (ḍrāfṭs)
- Uyghur: دامكا (damka)
- Uzbek: shashka (uz), damka (uz)
- Vietnamese: cờ đam
- Yakut: дуобат (duobat)
- Yiddish: דאַמקע f (damke)
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draughts
- third-person singular simple present indicative of draught
