English Explanatory Dictionary

mancala

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

mancala mancalas

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).

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