raffle

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

lotteria

sorteggiare

sorteggio

riffa

estrazione

tombola

sinonimi

lottery

draw

draw for

draw lots

raffle off

lottery-ticket

drawing

lucky dip

bingo

draw for anything

gamble

lot

shake

🫨

sweepstakes

tombola

trash

Traduzioni

tombola

Verlosung

rifa

sorteo

loterij

Tombola

verloting

loterie

verlosen

rifa

λαχείο

rifar

sortear

λαχνός

loteria

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈɹæfl̩/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: rafle

Affine olandese medio: raffel

Affine tedesco: raffen

Affine inglese antico: 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”).