raffle

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Έννοιες

λαχείο

λαχνός

εκκύβευση

εκκυβεύω

λοταρία

λότος

βάζω σε λοταρία

Συνώνυμα

lottery

draw

draw for

draw lots

raffle off

lottery-ticket

drawing

lucky dip

bingo

draw for anything

gamble

lot

shake

🫨

sweepstakes

tombola

trash

Μεταφράσεις

tombola

Verlosung

rifa

Tombola

loterie

sorteo

lotteria

loterij

verloting

sorteggiare

verlosen

rifa

sorteggio

riffa

loteria

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈɹæfl̩/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: rafle

Συγγενές με Μέσα Ολλανδικά: raffel

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: raffen

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Αγγλικά: 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”).