mancalan.

Brit.

/manˈkɑːlə/, U.S.

/mɑnˈkɑlə/,

/ˈmɑŋkələ/

Forms: 1600s– mancala, 1800s munckalah, 1800s– mancalah, 1800s– mankalah.

Origin: A borrowing from Arabic; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: Arabic manqala.

Etymology: < colloquial Arabic manqala (in literary Arabic minqala ) ‘(device designed for) transfer (of board-game pieces from one position to another)’, ‘the game of mancala’ < naqala to transfer, remove, relocate. Compare Persian manqala ‘a sort of game’, Ottoman Turkish manqala ‘a board with two rows of cuplike hollows with which a game is played with pebbles or cowries’. In quot. 1687 via French mancala (1665).

A board game, originally Arabic but now common throughout Africa and Asia, played by two players on a board with rows of holes or hollows, having as its object the capture, or removal, of the opponent's pieces. Also used as a generic term for regional variations of the basic game.

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1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. xxv. 35 They [sc. the Turks] play also very much at Mancala, which is a Box about two foot long, and about half a foot broad, wherein there are six holes on each side... Every one plays with six and thirty Shells, putting at the beginning six in every hole.

1813 J. Galt Lett. from Levant xxix. 242 I saw there today a game... The Idriots call it Mandoli, or the Almonds, and it is played at a board by two persons.]

1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians II. iv. 46 One of the games most common among the Egyptians is that of the mun′ckal′ah [1895 ‘mankalah’].

1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 726/2 They [sc. the Egyptians] are acquainted with..other games, among which is one peculiar to themselves, called Mankalah, and played with cowries.

1952 H. J. R. Murray Hist. Board-games vii. 158 Anthropologists use the term mancala for any similar game played on a board in which the pattern..usual for board-games is replaced by two, three, or four rows of holes deep enough to contain a number of pieces at the same time.

1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. iv. 72 Ba-awa played by the Twi people of Ghana, is one of the simpler forms of mancala and appears to be extremely ancient.

2008 Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press (Nexis) 29 July c3 Using stones and egg cartons to play games of mancala.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mancala
释义	mancalan. Brit. /manˈkɑːlə/, U.S. /mɑnˈkɑlə/, /ˈmɑŋkələ/ Forms: 1600s– mancala, 1800s munckalah, 1800s– mancalah, 1800s– mankalah. Origin: A borrowing from Arabic; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: Arabic manqala. Etymology: < colloquial Arabic manqala (in literary Arabic minqala ) ‘(device designed for) transfer (of board-game pieces from one position to another)’, ‘the game of mancala’ < naqala to transfer, remove, relocate. Compare Persian manqala ‘a sort of game’, Ottoman Turkish manqala ‘a board with two rows of cuplike hollows with which a game is played with pebbles or cowries’. In quot. 1687 via French mancala (1665). A board game, originally Arabic but now common throughout Africa and Asia, played by two players on a board with rows of holes or hollows, having as its object the capture, or removal, of the opponent's pieces. Also used as a generic term for regional variations of the basic game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others quek1376 quek-board1477 draughtsc1540 goose1597 mancala1687 pachisi1801 Chinese chequers1840 go1840 shogi1858 wari1866 wei ch'i1871 gobang1875 crokinole1885 Kono1895 salta1901 Snakes and Ladders1907 pegity1925 oware1929 monopoly1934 Scrabble1950 morabaraba1953 Chutes and Ladders1955 pentominos1975 Trivial Pursuit1982 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. xxv. 35 They [sc. the Turks] play also very much at Mancala, which is a Box about two foot long, and about half a foot broad, wherein there are six holes on each side... Every one plays with six and thirty Shells, putting at the beginning six in every hole. 1813 J. Galt Lett. from Levant xxix. 242 I saw there today a game... The Idriots call it Mandoli, or the Almonds, and it is played at a board by two persons.] 1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians II. iv. 46 One of the games most common among the Egyptians is that of the mun′ckal′ah [1895 ‘mankalah’]. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 726/2 They [sc. the Egyptians] are acquainted with..other games, among which is one peculiar to themselves, called Mankalah, and played with cowries. 1952 H. J. R. Murray Hist. Board-games vii. 158 Anthropologists use the term mancala for any similar game played on a board in which the pattern..usual for board-games is replaced by two, three, or four rows of holes deep enough to contain a number of pieces at the same time. 1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. iv. 72 Ba-awa played by the Twi people of Ghana, is one of the simpler forms of mancala and appears to be extremely ancient. 2008 Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press (Nexis) 29 July c3 Using stones and egg cartons to play games of mancala. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1687
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