raffle

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
2. (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
3. (Philippines) The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.

Verb

1. (often, transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing.
2. (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.

Conceptes

rifa

loteria

Sinònims

lottery

draw

draw for

draw lots

raffle off

lottery-ticket

drawing

lucky dip

bingo

draw for anything

gamble

lot

shake

🫨

sweepstakes

tombola

trash

Traduccions

tombola

rifa

Verlosung

sorteo

verloting

loterie

loterij

Tombola

lotteria

sorteggiare

rifa

verlosen

λαχείο

sorteggio

λαχνός

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɹæfl̩/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: rafle

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: raffel

Cognat amb alemany: raffen

Cognat amb anglès antic: hreppan

In summary

From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffolōn, from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game”), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off”), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).