raffle

See also: Raffle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæfl̩/

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• Rhymes: -æfəl

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English rafle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *raffolōn, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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”).

Noun

raffle (plural raffles)

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.

2. (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)

Derived terms

• meat raffle

Translations

drawing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抽彩 (zh) (chōucǎi)

• Danish: tombola c
• Finnish: arpajaiset (fi), arvonta (fi)
• French: tombola (fr) f
• Galician: bisbís m, rifa f
• German: Tombola (de) f, Verlosung (de) f
• Hebrew: הַגְרָלָה (he) f (hagralá)
• Hungarian: tombola (hu), sorsolás (hu), sorsjáték (hu)
• Italian: estrazione (it) f, estrazione a premi f, lotteria (it) f, estrazione del lotto f
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• Japanese: 抽選 (ja) (ちゅうせん, chūsen)
• Maori: rāwhara
• Portuguese: rifa (pt) f
• Russian: лотере́я (ru) f (lotɛréja)
• Scottish Gaelic: rafail f
• Spanish: rifa (es) f
• Swedish: bråte (sv), tombola (sv)
• Tagalog: ripa
• Vietnamese: xổ số (vi)

Verb

raffle (third-person singular simple present raffles, present participle raffling, simple past and past participle raffled)

1. (transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.

   They raffled off four gift baskets.

2. (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.

   to raffle for a watch

Translations

to award by means of a raffle

• Finnish: arpoa (fi)
• French: mettre en tombola
• German: verlosen (de)
• Hungarian: kisorsol (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: rāwhara
• Spanish: rifar (es)
• Swedish: lotta ut (sv)

Etymology 2

See raff.

Noun

raffle (uncountable)

1. refuse; rubbish

Anagrams

• farfel, laffer