mancala
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːlə
Noun
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.
- 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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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).
Pronunciation
Noun
mancala m (plural mancales)
- mancala (family of two-person board games)
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “mancala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
mancala f (plural mancalas)
Etymology 2
Verb
mancala
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mancar combined with la