FromMiddle Englishrafle, fromOld Frenchrafle,raffle(“dice game", also "plundering”), fromrafler(“to snatch, seize, carry off”), fromFrankish*raffolōn, fromProto-Germanic*hrapōną,*hrēpōną(“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kreb(h)-,*(s)kerb(h)-(“to turn, bend, shrink”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)ker-(“to turn, bend”). Cognate withMiddle Dutchraffel(“dice game”),Germanraffen(“to snatch away, sweep off”),Old Englishhreppan(“to touch, treat, attack”).
raffle (pluralraffles)
- Adrawing, often held as afundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win aprize.
He entered araffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
- (obsolete) A game ofdice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
drawing
- Bulgarian:томбола (bg) f(tombola)
- Catalan:rifa (ca) f
- 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,riffa (it) f
- Japanese:抽選 (ja)(ちゅうせん, chūsen)
- Maori:rāwhara
- Polish:losowanie (pl) n
- Portuguese:rifa (pt) f
- Russian:лотере́я (ru) f(lotɛréja)
- Scottish Gaelic:rafail f
- Spanish:rifa (es) f,mita (es) f
- Swedish:utlottning (sv) c,tombola (sv) c
- Tagalog:ripa
- Vietnamese:xổ số (vi)
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raffle (third-person singular simple presentraffles,present participleraffling,simple past and past participleraffled)
- (transitive, often withoff) Toaward something by means of a raffle orrandomdrawing.
- Theyraffled off four gift baskets.
- (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
- toraffle for a watch
to award by means of a raffle
Seeraff.
raffle (uncountable)
- refuse;rubbish
