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- Arabic · borrowed fromتَعْبِئَة
- English todaytabiya
From Arabic تَعْبِئَة (taʕbiʔa) or تَعْبِيَة (taʕbiya, “mobilization, arrangement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tabiya
Today it means: A position in the opening of a game that occurs after a sequence of moves that is heavily standardized, and from which the players have many possible moves again. Full definition →
Arabic تَعْبِئَة