mancala

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).

• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

mancala (countable and uncountable, plural mancalas)

1. (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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• almanac

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məŋˈka.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [maŋˈka.la]

mancala m (plural mancales)

1. mancala (family of two-person board games)

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• “mancala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /manˈkala/ [mãŋˈka.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: man‧ca‧la

mancala f (plural mancalas)

1. mancala

mancala

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mancar combined with la