mancala

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

Noun

mancala (countable and uncountable, plural mancalas)

1. (games, 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, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 109:

     Mameh could sit on the floor to play board games like mancala with her friends, or roll out a mat and lounge about.

See also

• wari

Anagrams

• almanac

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Spanish

Noun

mancala f (plural mancalas)

1. mancala