dabbaba

Questions

What does dabbaba mean?

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

Where does dabbaba come from?

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

How to pronounce dabbaba

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