marabaraba
marabaraba noun: an African board game, still played regularly.
Noun
marabaraba (uncountable)
- An African board game, still played regularly.
- We rest at the viewpoint after an easy hour of walking, and our guide teaches us some finer points of Marabaraba, a board game hastily drawn on a sandstone rock, with little stones for “cows”. https://web.archive.org/web/20060710035511/http://www.seelesotho.com/travel/cities/towns_menu.htm
- The murals, themselves subject to the cycle of nature and life, are an impermanent art, requiring annual renewal because they are washed off by the rain. Some mural designs depict objects such as women's coiffure, initiation masks or the board for marabaraba, a popular game like checkers, van Wyk...
Forms of marabaraba
| alternative form | Morabaraba |
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Origin of marabaraba
Shangaan: marabaraba
Questions about marabaraba
- What does marabaraba mean?
- Marabaraba means an African board game, still played regularly.
- What part of speech is marabaraba?
- Marabaraba is a noun.
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