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語源 1

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”), 古期英語 hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).

名詞

raffle (複数形 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.

派生語

動詞

raffle (三人称単数 現在形 raffles, 現在分詞 raffling, 過去形および過去分詞形 raffled)

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

   They raffled off four gift baskets.

2. (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.

   to raffle for a watch

語源 2

See raff.

名詞

raffle (uncountable)

1. refuse; rubbish

アナグラム

• farfel, laffer