lottery

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lottery

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie). By surface analysis, lot +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒtəɹi/, /ˈlɒtɹi/
Audio (UK): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtɚi/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: lot‧te‧ry
Rhymes: -ɒtəɹi, -ɒtɹi

Noun

lottery (plural lotteries)

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.
Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers.
(figuratively) Something decided by chance.
It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.
(obsolete) Allotment; a thing allotted.

Derived terms

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 (bn) (loṭari)
Bulgarian: лота́рия (bg) f (lotárija)
Burmese: ထီ (my) (hti)
Catalan: loteria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抽獎／抽奖 (zh) (chōujiǎng), 抽彩 (zh) (chōucǎi), 樂透／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: くじ (ja) (kuji), 宝くじ (ja) (たからくじ, takarakuji), 富くじ (とみくじ, tomikuji)
Kazakh: лотерея (lotereä)
Khmer: ឆ្នោត (km) (chnaot)
Korean: 복권(福券) (ko) (bokgwon)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھایبەخت (haybext)
Kyrgyz: лотерея (ky) (lotereya)
Lao: ຫວຍ (lo) (hūai)
Latin: sortītus m, sortītiō f
Latvian: loterija f
Lithuanian: loterija f
Macedonian: лотарија f (lotarija)
Malay: loteri (ms)
Malayalam: ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി (ml) (bhāgyakkuṟi), ലോട്ടറി (lōṭṭaṟi)
Maori: rota
Mongolian: лотерея (mn) (lotereja)
Norman: lot'tie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lotteri n

Nynorsk: lotteri n
Ottoman Turkish: پیانقو (piyanko)
Pashto: لاترۍ f (lātrᶕy), لاټرۍ f (lāṭrǝy)
Persian: لاتاری (fa) (lâtâri), بخت‌آزمایی (fa) (baxt-âzmâyi)
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
Swahili: bahati nasibu (sw)
Swedish: lotteri (sv) n
Tagalog: loteriya
Tajik: лотерея (tg) (lotereya)
Telugu: లాటరీ (lāṭarī)
Thai: หวย (th) (hǔai), สลาก (th) (sà-làak), 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

something decided by chance

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

Nynorsk: lotteri n
Polish: loteria (pl) f
Portuguese: lotaria (pt) f (Portugal)
Romanian: loterie (ro) f
Spanish: lotería (es) f
Swedish: lotteri (sv) n

allotment

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