raffle

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• /ˈɹæfl̩/
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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”).

See raff.

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: томбола (tombola) — drawing
• Catalan: rifa — drawing
• Chinese Mandarin: 抽彩 (chōucǎi) — drawing
• Danish: tombola — drawing
• Finnish: arpajaiset — drawing
• Finnish: arvonta — drawing
• French: tombola — drawing
• Galician: bisbís — drawing
• Galician: rifa — drawing
• German: Tombola — drawing
• German: Verlosung — drawing
• Hebrew: הַגְרָלָה (hagralá) — drawing
• Hungarian: tombola — drawing
• Hungarian: sorsolás — drawing
• Hungarian: sorsjáték — drawing
• Italian: estrazione — drawing
• Italian: estrazione a premi — drawing
• Italian: lotteria — drawing
• Italian: estrazione del lotto — drawing
• Italian: riffa — drawing
• Japanese: 抽選 (chūsen) — drawing
• Korean: 추첨 (chucheom) — drawing
• Māori: rāwhara — drawing
• Polish: losowanie — drawing
• Portuguese: rifa — drawing
• Russian: лотере́я (lotɛréja) — drawing
• Scottish Gaelic: rafail — drawing
• Spanish: rifa — drawing
• Spanish: mita — drawing
• Swedish: utlottning — drawing
• Swedish: tombola — drawing
• Tagalog: ripa — drawing
• Turkish: piyango — drawing
• Ottoman Turkish: پیانقو (piyanko) — drawing
• Vietnamese: xổ số — drawing
• Catalan: rifar — to award by means of a raffle
• Finnish: arpoa — to award by means of a raffle
• French: mettre en tombola — to award by means of a raffle
• German: verlosen — to award by means of a raffle
• Hungarian: kisorsol — to award by means of a raffle
• Italian: arriffare — to award by means of a raffle
• Māori: rāwhara — to award by means of a raffle
• Portuguese: rifar — to award by means of a raffle
• Spanish: rifar — to award by means of a raffle
• Spanish: quintar — to award by means of a raffle
• Swedish: lotta ut — to award by means of a raffle
• Swedish: utlotta — to award by means of a raffle