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What do you call chess in your language 👀🫵🏻

18 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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The video presents a brief, informal conversation among several speakers (A–E) who each share the term they use for the game of chess in their native language or dialect. Speaker A asks the question and repeats various answers. Speaker B mentions Marathi (buddhibad) and a phrase that sounds like "Urkino gawan". Speaker D provides Urdu terms, showing both Arabic script (شطرنج) and alternative local forms (جاترک, شخمت). Speaker C notes Punjabi as his mother tongue. Speaker B also cites the French term "l'échecs". Speaker E defaults to the English word "chess". The exchange is casual, with repetitions for emphasis, and showcases a range of linguistic representations—Latin script transliterations, native scripts, and regional variations—highlighting how a single concept is named across South Asian languages and French.

And what do you call chess in your language? In my language, chess is shadrish. Shadrish.
Sorry? Urkino gawan. Urkino gawan. Gawan. Yeah. Marathi, we call it buddhibad.
Shatransh. Ahedrez. Chess.
In French, it is l'échecs.
My mother tongue is Punjabi, national language.
Language which is being understood all over in Pakistan. That is Urdu. شطرنج. Chess means جاترک, but we also used to say شخمت.
Well, chess. Chess. You call it chess.
شخمت. شخمت.
Thank you. It's chess.
Just chess.
Yes.
Friends, we just call it ردهشک. ردهشک. ردهشک. Chessing चीजें हुआ? छुआ। Just call it chess. Chess. Yeah, or we say चतुरंगा. चतुरंगा. साधुरंगा. साधुरंगा.