catur

• katur, catuar, katuar, catuor, katuor

Ultimately from Latin captāre, possibly via Venetian catar on both semantic grounds (both mean 'find') and phonological (Dalmatian lacks the expected /p/; cf. sapto < Latin septem).

catur

1. to find

From Malay catur, from Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čatwā́ras, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.tur/
• Hyphenation: ca‧tur

catur

1. four

• catur-

• empat

From Malay catur, from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga), related to etymology 1.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.tur/
• Hyphenation: ca‧tur

catur (first-person possessive caturku, second-person possessive caturmu, third-person possessive caturnya)

1. (sports) chess (two-player board game)

   synonym: sekak

2. dialogue

• “catur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

catur

1. Romanization of ꦕꦠꦸꦂ

• chator

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃato(r)/
• Rhymes: -ato(r), -to(r), -o(r)

From Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

catur (Jawi spelling چاتور)

1. four

• empat / امڤت

From Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga), related to etymology 1.

catur (Jawi spelling چاتور, informal 1st possessive caturku, 2nd possessive caturmu, 3rd possessive caturnya)

1. chess (two-player board game)

• Indonesian: catur
• → Maguindanao: satol
• → Maranao: sator
• → Tagalog: satol
• → Tausug: sattul

• “catur” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Sanskrit चतुर् (catur, “four”).

catur

1. four

catur

1. a type of chess

• → Javanese: ꦕꦠꦸꦂ (catur) (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

catur

1. four

• caturāsīti (“84”)
• caturaṅgika (“fourfold”)