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dabbaba

The English word “dabbaba” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A fairy chess piece that jumps two squares orthogonally (i.e. not diagonally), leaping over any intermediate piece.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَبَّابَة (dabbāba, “a kind of siege engine”).

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