"So it's called a 'knight'?""Yes.""But it's shaped like a horse, not a knight.""Yes.""And it can only move in an 'L' shaped pattern.""...Yes.""That's not confusing at all."
IIRC they were elephants originally, but the Europeans didn't know what an elephant was. Forgot about Hannibal, I guess.
various languages: so I called it a horse.
It’s just a knight with a coconut shell.