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語源

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).

発音

• 韻: -ɑːlə

名詞

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.

下位語

• congkak
• hoyito
• omweso
• sungka
• wari

アナグラム

• almanac