mancala
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. [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.
- 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 109:
Hyponyms
- congkak
- hoyito
- sungka
- wari
Anagrams
- almanac
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /məŋˈka.lə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /maŋˈka.la/
Noun
mancala m (plural mancales)
- mancala (family of two-person board games)
Hypernyms
- joc
Further reading
- “mancala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /manˈkala/ [mãŋˈka.la]
- Rhymes: -ala
- Syllabification: man‧ca‧la
Noun
mancala f (plural mancalas)
- mancala
Verb
mancala
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mancar combined with la