morabaraban.
/məˌrabəˈrabə/, /məˌrabəˈrɑːbə/, U.S. /məˌrɑbəˈrɑbə/, South African English /məˌrʌbəˈrʌbə/, /məˌrʌbəˈrɑːbə/ South African.
A traditional game of strategy played using stones which are placed and moved on rows of small holes in the ground, or on lines on a board or large stone, etc., the object being to capture all of one's opponent's pieces. Cf. nine men's morris at morris n.2
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1953 ‘P. Lanham’ & A. S. Mopeli-Paulus Blanket Boy's Moon iii. ii. 161 Mkize looked up from his game of morabaraba and answered him.
1965 E. Mphahlele Down Second Ave. 26 I wish Sello's father was my father too... He plays morabaraba with his boys. Father'd never do that.
1979 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Oct. 21 On the corner further along, a game of marabaraba, played with stones and holes in the ground.
1981 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 27 Dec. 8 You'll soon be seeing a ‘new’ game on the goggle-box... Marabaraba..was known to me as a small boy back where I come from as Nine Men's Morris.
1999 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 26 Mar. Ron King flew to South Africa from Barbados on Tuesday to defend his status as the undisputed draughts champion against local morabaraba champ Amos Mavusu.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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