lottery

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɒtəɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɒtɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈlɑtɚi/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒtəɹi
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• CMU ARPABET: L AA1 T ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie). By surface analysis, lot + -ery.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lotari — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Arabic: يَانَصِيب (yānaṣīb) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Arabic: لوتو (lōtō) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Armenian: վիճակախաղ (vičakaxaġ) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Azerbaijani: lotereya — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Belarusian: латарэ́я (lataréja) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Belarusian: лятарэ́я (ljataréja) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Bengali: লটারি (loṭari) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Bulgarian: лота́рия (lotárija) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Burmese: ထီ (hti) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Catalan: loteria — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Chinese Mandarin: 抽獎 /抽奖 (chōujiǎng) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Chinese Mandarin: 抽彩 (chōucǎi) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Chinese Mandarin: 樂透 /乐透 (lètòu) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Czech: loterie — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Danish: lotteri — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Dutch: loting — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Dutch: loterij — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Dutch: lottrekking — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Esperanto: loterio — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Estonian: loterii — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Finnish: arpajaiset — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Finnish: arvonta — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• French: loterie — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Georgian: ლატარია (laṭaria) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• German: Lotterie — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Greek: λοταρία (lotaría) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Hebrew: לוֹטוֹ (lotó) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Hebrew: הַגְרָלָה (hagralá) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Hindi: लॉटरी (lŏṭrī) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Hindi: लाटरी (lāṭrī) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Hungarian: lottó — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Icelandic: happdrætti — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Icelandic: lottó — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Italian: lotteria — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Japanese: くじ (kuji) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Japanese: 宝くじ (takarakuji) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Japanese: 富くじ (tomikuji) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Kazakh: лотерея (lotereä) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Khmer: ឆ្នោត (chnaot) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Korean: 복권 (bokgwon) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Central Kurdish: ھایبەخت (haybext) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Kyrgyz: лотерея (lotereya) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Lao: ຫວຍ (hūai) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Latin: sortītus — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Latin: sortītiō — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Latvian: loterija — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Lithuanian: loterija — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Macedonian: лотарија (lotarija) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Malay: loteri — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Malayalam: ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി (bhāgyakkuṟi) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Malayalam: ലോട്ടറി (lōṭṭaṟi) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Māori: rota — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Marathi: लॉटरी (lŏṭrī) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Mongolian: лотерея (lotereja) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Norman: lot'tie — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Norwegian Bokmål: lotteri — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lotteri — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Pannonian Rusyn: лутрия (lutrija) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Pashto: لاترۍ (lātrᶕy) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Pashto: لاټرۍ (lāṭrǝy) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Iranian Persian: بَخْتآزْمایی (baxt-âzmâyi) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Iranian Persian: لاتاری (lâtâri) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Polish: loteria — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Portuguese: lotaria — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Portuguese: loteria — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Romanian: loterie — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Romanian: loto — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Russian: лотере́я (lotɛréja) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Serbo-Croatian: лу̀трија — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Serbo-Croatian: lùtrija — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Slovak: lotéria — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Slovene: loterija — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Spanish: lotería — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Swahili: bahati nasibu — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Swedish: lotteri — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Tagalog: loteriya — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Tajik: лотерея (lotereya) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Telugu: లాటరీ (lāṭarī) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Thai: หวย (hǔai) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Thai: สลาก (sà-làak) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Thai: ลอตเตอรี่ (lɔ́t-dtəə-rîi) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Turkish: piyango — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Ottoman Turkish: پیانقو (piyanko) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Turkmen: lotereýa — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Ukrainian: лотере́я (loteréja) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Urdu: لاٹَری (lāṭarī) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Uyghur: لاتارىيە (latariye) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Uyghur: لاتارى (latari) — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Uzbek: lotereya — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Vietnamese: xổ số — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Vilamovian: loteri — scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance
• Catalan: loteria — something decided by chance
• Dutch: loterij — something decided by chance
• Finnish: arpapeli — something decided by chance
• Finnish: onnenpeli — something decided by chance
• Finnish: onnenkauppa — something decided by chance
• Hungarian: lutri — something decided by chance
• Malayalam: ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി (bhāgyakkuṟi) — something decided by chance
• Norwegian Bokmål: lotteri — something decided by chance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lotteri — something decided by chance
• Polish: loteria — something decided by chance
• Portuguese: lotaria — something decided by chance
• Romanian: loterie — something decided by chance
• Spanish: lotería — something decided by chance
• Swedish: lotteri — something decided by chance