tombola
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tombola.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɒmˈbəʊlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊlə
Noun
tombola (plural tombolas)
- A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
- 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
lottery
See also
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtombola]
Noun
tombola f
Declension
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tombola.
Noun
tombola c (singular definite tombolaen, plural indefinite tombolaer)
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tombola | tombolaen | tombolaer | tombolaerne |
| genitive | tombolas | tombolaens | tombolaers | tombolaernes |
Derived terms
- tombolavogn
Further reading
- “tombola” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tombola, from tombolare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔ̃.bɔ.la/
Audio: (file)
Noun
tombola f (plural tombolas)
Further reading
- “tombola”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tombola. [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtombolɒ]
- Hyphenation: tom‧bo‧la
- Rhymes: -lɒ
Noun
tombola (plural tombolák)
Declension
| 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 |
| 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
- ^ 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)
Descendants
- → Turkish: tombala
Interjection
tombola
Verb
tombola
- inflection of tombolare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
tȏmbola f (Cyrillic spelling то̑мбола)