Meaning of As-Nas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A card game, formerly played in Persia, with similarities to early versions of poker.
2. A variety of playing cards used to play the game.

Examples

“The fact that Old Poker involved 20 cards, five-card hands, and rank-only combinations led some nineteenth-century researchers to derive it from the Persian game of As-Nas, as described by General A. Houtum Schindler in Culin's Chess and Playing Cards (1896).”

“As nas was a five-handed card game played in Persia (Iran today). Although the earliest written records of the game come⟳ from the seventeenth century, we have⟳ examples of playing cards suited to the game from the medieval time, so it seems reasonable to conclude⟳ that as nas or a very similar game was played during the period.”

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