mancala
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɑːlə
Noun edit
mancala (countable and uncountable, plural mancalas)
- (board games) Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits. [from 17th c.]
- 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 109:
- Mameh could sit on the floor to play board games like mancala with her friends, or roll out a mat and lounge about.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mancala m (plural mancales)
- mancala (family of two-person board games)
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Further reading edit
- “mancala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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Etymology 1 edit
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mancala f (plural mancalas)
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Verb edit
mancala
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mancar combined with la