As-Nas

English Etymology Borrowing from en fa آس ناس. Proper noun A card game, formerly played in Persia, with similarities to early versions of poker. en 1990 David Parlett The Oxford Guide to Card Games https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gtPfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22as+nas%22&dq=%22as+nas%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq_KTehd7uAhWSbSsKHcmeDZwQ6AEwEXoECEIQAg 112 w:Oxford University Press 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). en 2002 Sally E. D. Wilkins Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IyFHvy-SCIYC&pg=PA190&dq=%22as+nas%22+game%7Ccard%7Cpersia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUuvjplN7uAhXPyDgGHfhFD70Q6AEwAHoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=%22as%20nas%22%20game%7Ccard%7Cpersia&f=false 120 Greenwood Press 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. A variety of playing cards used to play the game. Anagrams en aanss Assan sansa en Card games