tombola

See also: Tombola, tombóla, and tómbola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɒmˈbəʊlə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • 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 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 43:
      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

See also

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtombola]

Noun

tombola f

  1. raffle, lottery

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola.

Noun

tombola c (singular definite tombolaen, plural indefinite tombolaer)

  1. tombola

Declension

Declension of tombola
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tombola tombolaen tombolaer tombolaerne
genitive tombolas tombolaens tombolaers tombolaernes

Derived terms

  • tombolavogn

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola, from tombolare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔ̃.bɔ.la/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

tombola f (plural tombolas)

  1. a lottery, raffle

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tombola. [1]

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

References

  1. ^ tombola in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • tombola in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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