backgammon

Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).

• enPR: ʹbăkgămən, IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/

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backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)

2. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 90:

     "I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.

3. (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

• gammon

• tick-tack
• tric-trac, trick-track

backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)

1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

• backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English backgammon.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɣamon/ [baˈɣa.mõŋ]
• Rhymes: -amon

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon (board game)

From English backgammon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbækɡɑm(ː)on/, [ˈbækɡɑ̝m(ː)o̞n]
• Rhymes: -ækɡɑmon
• Syllabification^(key): back‧gam‧mon
• Hyphenation^(key): back‧gam‧mon

backgammon

1. backgammon

• “backgammon”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from English backgammon.

• IPA^(key): /bak.ɡa.mɔn/

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backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

• trictrac

Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.

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backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: tric trac, tavola reale

Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.

• IPA^(key): /baɡˈɡamon/ [baɣ̞ˈɣ̞a.mõn]
• Rhymes: -amon
• Syllabification: back‧gam‧mon

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: chanchullo, chaquete, tablas reales

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “backgammon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025