The story
- Yiddish · borrowed fromמגילה“a lengthy document, a long story”
- English todaymagilla
From Yiddish מגילה (megile, “a lengthy document, a long story”), from Hebrew מגילה / מְגִלָּה (məḡillāh, “a scroll”). Doublet of megillah.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.