lottery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hlot (cognate with lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɒtəɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtɚi/

Noun

lottery (plural lotteries)

1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
2. (figuratively) An affair of chance.
3. (obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.

Derived terms

• lotologist (probably)

Translations

scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance

• Albanian: lotari (sq) f
• Arabic: يَانَصِيب m (yānaṣīb)
• Armenian: վիճակախաղ (hy) (vičakaxaġ)
• Azerbaijani: lotereya (az)
• Belarusian: латарэ́я f (lataréja), лятарэ́я f (ljataréja)
• Bengali: লটারি (loṭari)
• Bulgarian: лотария (bg) f (lotarija)
• Burmese: ထီ (my) (hti)
• Catalan: loteria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抽獎／抽奖 (zh) (chōujiǎng), 抽奖 (zh) (chōujiǎng), 抽彩 (zh) (chōucǎi), 樂透／乐透 (zh) (lètòu), 乐透 (zh) (lètòu)

• Czech: loterie (cs) f
• Danish: lotteri n
• Dutch: loting (nl), loterij (nl), lottrekking
• Esperanto: loterio
• Estonian: loterii
• Finnish: arpajaiset (fi) pl, arvonta (fi)
• French: loterie (fr) f
• Georgian: ლატარია (laṭaria)
• German: Lotterie (de) f
• Greek: λοταρία (el) f (lotaría)
• Hebrew: לוֹטוֹ (he) m (lotó), הַגְרָלָה (he) f (hagralá)
• Hindi: लॉटरी f (lŏṭrī), लाटरी (hi) f (lāṭrī)
• Hungarian: lottó (hu)
• Icelandic: happdrætti (is) n, lottó (is) n
• Italian: lotteria (it) f
• Japanese: 宝くじ (たからくじ, takarakuji), 富くじ (とみくじ, tomikuji), くじ (kuji)
• Kazakh: лотерея (lotereä)
• Khmer: ឆ្នោត (km) (chnaot)
• Korean: 복권 (ko) (bokgwon)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: лотерея (ky) (lotereya)
• Lao: ຫວຍ (lo) (hūai)
• Latin: sortītus m, sortītiō f
• Latvian: loterija f
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• Lithuanian: loterija f
• Macedonian: лотарија f (lotarija)
• Malay: loteri
• Malayalam: ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി (ml) (bhāgyakkuṟi)
• Maori: rota
• Mongolian: лотерея (mn) (lotereja)
• Norman: lot'tie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lotteri n

  Nynorsk: lotteri n

• Pashto: لاترۍ f (lātrᶕy), لاټرۍ f (lāṭrǝ́y)
• Persian: بخت‌آزمایی (fa) (baxt-âzmâyi), لاتاری (fa) (lâtâri)
• Polish: loteria (pl) f
• Portuguese: lotaria (pt) f (Portugal), loteria (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: loterie (ro) f, loto (ro) n
• Russian: лотере́я (ru) f (lotɛréja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лу̀трија f

  Roman: lùtrija (sh) f

• Slovak: lotéria f
• Slovene: loterija f
• Spanish: lotería (es) f
• Swedish: lotteri (sv) n
• Tagalog: loteriya
• Tajik: лотерея (tg) (lotereya)
• Telugu: లాటరీ (lāṭarī)
• Thai: หวย (hǔai), ลอตเตอรี่ (th) (lɔ́t-dtəə-rîi)
• Turkish: piyango (tr)
• Turkmen: lotereýa
• Ukrainian: лотере́я f (loteréja)
• Urdu: لاٹری f (lāṭrī)
• Uyghur: لاتارىيە (latariye), لاتارى (latari)
• Uzbek: lotereya (uz)
• Vietnamese: xổ số (vi)
• Vilamovian: loteri f

affair of chance

• Dutch: loterij (nl)
• Finnish: arpapeli (fi), onnenpeli, onnenkauppa
• Hungarian: lutri (hu)
• Malayalam: ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി (ml) (bhāgyakkuṟi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lotteri n

  Nynorsk: lotteri n

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• Romanian: loterie (ro) f
• Spanish: lotería (es) f
• Swedish: lotteri (sv) n

archaic: allotment

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• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} lotteri (sv) n
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