tombola

See also: Tombola, tombóla, and tómbola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

Noun

tombola (plural tombolas)

1. A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
2. The drum from which the tickets are drawn.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 60:

     He had been given no choice in the matter of sharing rooms. Gary and he were drawn out of the tombola together, so together they were.

Translations

lottery

• Czech: tombola (cs)
• Dutch: tombola (nl) m
• German: Tombola (de) f
• Hungarian: tombola (hu)
• Icelandic: tombóla f, hlutavelta (is) f
• Italian: tombola (it)
• Japanese: ガラガラ抽選 (garagara chūsen)
• Spanish: tómbola (es)

See also

• bingo
• lotto

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtombola]

Noun

tombola f

1. raffle, lottery

Declension

Declension of tombola (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	tombola	tomboly
genitive	tomboly	tombol
dative	tombole	tombolám
accusative	tombolu	tomboly
vocative	tombolo	tomboly
locative	tombole	tombolách
instrumental	tombolou	tombolami

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola, from tombolare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.bɔ.la/

• Audio:

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Noun

tombola f (plural tombolas)

1. a lottery, raffle

Further reading

• “tombola”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtombolɒ]
• Hyphenation: tom‧bo‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun

tombola (plural tombolák)

1. raffle

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tombola	tombolák
accusative	tombolát	tombolákat
dative	tombolának	tomboláknak
instrumental	tombolával	tombolákkal
causal-final	tomboláért	tombolákért
translative	tombolává	tombolákká
terminative	tomboláig	tombolákig
essive-formal	tombolaként	tombolákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tombolában	tombolákban
superessive	tombolán	tombolákon
adessive	tombolánál	tomboláknál
illative	tombolába	tombolákba
sublative	tombolára	tombolákra
allative	tombolához	tombolákhoz
elative	tombolából	tombolákból
delative	tomboláról	tombolákról
ablative	tombolától	tomboláktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tomboláé	tomboláké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tomboláéi	tombolákéi

Possessive forms of tombola
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tombolám	tomboláim
2nd person sing.	tombolád	tomboláid
3rd person sing.	tombolája	tombolái
1st person plural	tombolánk	tomboláink
2nd person plural	tombolátok	tomboláitok
3rd person plural	tombolájuk	tomboláik

Derived terms

• tombolázik

Further reading

• tombola in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Deverbal from tombolare.

Noun

tombola f (plural tombole)

1. bingo (when played at home)
2. tumble

Descendants

• → Turkish: tombala

Interjection

tombola

1. oops, upsadaisy (when tripping, etc.)

Verb

tombola

1. inflection of tombolare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tȏmbola f (Cyrillic spelling то̑мбола)

1. tombola

Declension

Declension of tombola

	singular	plural
nominative	tombola	tombole
genitive	tombole	tombola
dative	tomboli	tombolama
accusative	tombolu	tombole
vocative	tombolo	tombole
locative	tomboli	tombolama
instrumental	tombolom	tombolama