სამაგიდო თამაში გადაშლილ ხის ფიცარზე, წყვილი კამათლითა და 30 კოჭით
A two-player board game where 15 checkers per side are moved across 24 points based on dice rolls
Illustrative Examples
როსტევანისთვის „სიმღერა“- ნარდის თამაშს უკავშირდება, ავთანდილისთვის „მღერა“-სიმღერაა, გალობაა („ვაჟა-ფშაველას ლირიკის რამდენიმე ზოგადსაკაცობრიო მოტივი“. ქართველოლოგი, ტ. 19. პარალელური კორპუსი, corp.dict.ge)
For Rostevan "singing" is connected with playing backgammon and for Avtandil "singing" is chanting, caroling. ("Vazha-Pshavelas lirikis ramdenime zogadsakatsobrio motivi" [Several Universal Motifs in Vazha-Pshavela's Lyricism]. Kartvelologi, vol. 19. Parallel Corpus, corp.dict.ge)
Cultural Notes
The word first bursts into the English record in the mid-1600s (OED citations point to James Howell’s Familiar Letters around 1645, originally spelled baggammon). Before the mid-1600s, the OED notes that "Tables" was an umbrella term used for centuries to describe any game played with checkers on a split board driven by dice. The word entered the Georgian lexicon during the medieval period as a direct loan from Persian. Academic analyses of Georgian recreational terminology (such as the works from the Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics) note that ნარდი ('Nardi') brought with it an entire subsystem of direct Persian and Turkish lexical borrowings to describe the dice combinations.