lottery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒtəɹi/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtɚi/

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.
(figuratively) An affair of chance.
(obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.

Derived terms

lotologist (probably)

Translations

scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance

Albanian: lotari (sq) f
Arabic: يَانَصِيب‎ m (yānaṣīb)
Armenian: վիճակախաղ (hy) (vičakaxał)
Azerbaijani: lotereya (az)
Belarusian: латарэ́я f (lataréja), лятарэ́я f (ljataréja)
Bengali: লটারি (lôṭari)
Bulgarian: лотария (bg) f (lotarija)
Burmese: ထီ (my) (hti)
Catalan: loteria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抽獎 (zh), 抽奖 (zh) (chōujiǎng), 抽彩 (zh) (chōucǎi), 樂透 (zh), 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: 宝くじ (たからくじ, takarakuji), 富くじ (とみくじ, tomikuji), くじ (kuji)
Kazakh: лотерея (lotereya)
Khmer: ឆ្នោត (km) (chnaot)
Korean: 복권 (ko) (bokgwon)
Kurdish:
Sorani: هایبه‌خت‎ (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
Malayalam: ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി (ml) (bhāgyakkuṟi)
Maori: rota
Mongolian: лотерея (mn) (lotereja)
Norman: lot'tie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lotteri n

Nynorsk: lotteri n
Pashto: لاترۍ‎ f (lātrᶕy), لاټرۍ‎ f (lāṭrǝ́y)
Persian: بخت‌آزمایی‎ (fa) (baxt-âzmâyi), لاتاری‎ (fa) (lâtâri)
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
Swedish: lotteri (sv) n
Tagalog: loteriya
Tajik: лотерея (tg) (lotereya)
Telugu: లాటరీ (lāṭarī)
Thai: หวย (hǔai), 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

affair of chance

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

Nynorsk: lotteri n

Romanian: loterie (ro) f
Spanish: lotería (es) f
Swedish: lotteri (sv) n

archaic: allotment

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

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