tombola

Borrowed from Italian tombola.

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

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.

• bingo
• lotto

• IPA^(key): [ˈtombola]

tombola f

1. raffle, lottery

Borrowed from Italian tombola, from tombolare.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.bɔ.la/

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tombola f (plural tombolas)

1. a lottery, raffle

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

Borrowed from Italian tombola. [1]

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

tombola (plural tombolák)

1. raffle

• tombolázik

• 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

Deverbal from tombolare.

tombola f (plural tombole)

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

• → Turkish: tombala

tombola

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

tombola

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

tȏmbola f (Cyrillic spelling то̑мбола)

1. tombola