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raffle en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

  1. A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
    • He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
    • The raffle was a big success—too big, in fact. 1953 August 6, Jet, volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, page 22:
  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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
raffles Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

meat raffle · couldn't organise a two-ticket raffle · chook raffle · raffle sale

Translations (36)

sv utlottning (drawing) · bg томбола (drawing) · es rifa (drawing) · it lotteria (drawing) · ota پیانقو (drawing) · it estrazione a premi (drawing) · fr tombola (drawing) · it estrazione del lotto (drawing) · pt rifa (drawing) · it riffa (drawing) · tr piyango (drawing) · gl rifa (drawing) · cmn 抽彩 (drawing) · gl bisbís (drawing) · fi arpajaiset (drawing) · de Tombola (drawing) · ko 추첨 (drawing) · hu sorsolás (drawing) · hu tombola (drawing) · ja 抽選 (drawing) · he הַגְרָלָה (drawing) · it estrazione (drawing) · gd rafail (drawing) · vi xổ số (drawing) · mi rāwhara (drawing) · ca rifa (drawing) · fi arvonta (drawing) · tl ripa (drawing) · sv tombola (drawing) · hu sorsjáték (drawing) · yi גורל (drawing) · de Verlosung (drawing) · es mita (drawing) · da tombola (drawing) · pl losowanie (drawing) · ru лотере́я (drawing)

raffle en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

  1. (often, transitive, with off) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing.
    • They raffled off four gift baskets.
  2. (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
    • to raffle for a watch

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
raffling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
raffles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
raffled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
raffled Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (12)

sv lotta ut (to award by means of a raffle) · es rifar (to award by means of a raffle) · de verlosen (to award by means of a raffle) · es quintar (to award by means of a raffle) · ca rifar (to award by means of a raffle) · sv utlotta (to award by means of a raffle) · fi arpoa (to award by means of a raffle) · fr mettre en tombola (to award by means of a raffle) · mi rāwhara (to award by means of a raffle) · hu kisorsol (to award by means of a raffle) · it arriffare (to award by means of a raffle) · pt rifar (to award by means of a raffle)

raffle en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

See raff.

Meanings

  1. (dated, uncountable) Refuse; rubbish.
    • the oversurviving raffle of half-green things which the gentle winter has suffered to live