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  2. Rook (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The Persian word rukh means "chariot", [14] and the corresponding piece in the original Indian version, chaturanga, has the name ratha (meaning "chariot"). In modern times, it is mostly known as हाथी (elephant) to Hindi-speaking players, while East Asian chess games such as xiangqi and shogi have names also meaning chariot (車) for the ...

  3. Wazir (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The wazir is a very old piece, appearing in some very early chess variants, such as Tamerlane chess. The wazir also appears in some historical large shogi variants, such as in dai shogi under the name angry boar (嗔猪 shinchō). The general in xiangqi moves like a wazir but may not leave its palace or end its turn in check.

  4. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  5. Tikka (food) - Wikipedia

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    Tikka is a Chaghatai word which has been commonly combined with the Hindi-Urdu word masala — itself derived from Arabic — with the combined word originating from British English. [1] [2] The Chaghatai word tikka itself is a derivation of the Common Turkic word tikkü, which means "piece" or "chunk". [3] [4]

  6. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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    A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black , and it can be one of six types: king , queen , rook , bishop , knight , or pawn .

  7. Translation - Wikipedia

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    Though earlier approaches to translation are less commonly used today, they retain importance when dealing with their products, as when historians view ancient or medieval records to piece together events which took place in non-Western or pre-Western environments.

  8. Chaturanga - Wikipedia

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    The time of the rains played its game with frogs for pieces [nayadyutair] yellow and green in colour, as if mottled by lac, leapt up on the black field squares. The colours are not those of the two camps, but mean that the frogs have two colours, yellow and green. Chaturanga may also have much older roots, dating back 5000 years.

  9. Lota (vessel) - Wikipedia

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    The kindi, a spouted copper vessel traditionally used in Kerala, India. 9th-century spouted vessel, India 10th-century spouted vessel with deities, India The karuwa, a lota-like spouted vessel commonly used for religious rituals and serving water and liquor in Nepal.