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单词 wari
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warin.

Brit. /wɒˈriː/, /ˈwɒri/, U.S. /wɑˈri/, /ˈwɑri/, West African English /ˈwɔri/, Caribbean English /ˈwɑri/, /ˈwari/
Forms: 1800s– warri, 1900s– warrie, 1900s– wahree, 1900s– wari.
Origin: A borrowing from an Akan language.
Etymology: < an Akan language (compare Twi ɔware , Fante ɔware : see oware n.). Compare later oware n.
A game for two players, originally West African but now also popular in the Caribbean, and played on a rectangular board with rows of hollows, in which the object is to capture more pieces than one's opponent. Cf. oware n.Wari is a variation of the game of mancala: see mancala n.
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1866 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 4 p. lxxxiii They [sc. the Gallinas people] play various games, the principal one being called by them warri, but it is common to nearly all parts of Africa under different names... They have many other games besides warri.
1927 G. T. Bennett in R. S. Rattray Relig. & Art in Ashanti xxxii. 382 Wari..is a game for two players using..48 pebbles and a board hollowed out into two parallel rows of six cups.
1975 Observer 30 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 40/2 Groups of men [in Bridgetown] play ‘warri’, an old game brought to Barbados from Africa.
2020 @slimatic268 6 June in twitter.com (accessed 16 Sept. 2020) I've been getting blows playing Wari with a computer on impossible, I'm getting frustrated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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