rapol

Cebuano

Etymology

From English raffle, from Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffolōn, from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ra‧pol

Noun

rapol

1. a raffle; a drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize

Verb

rapol

1. to raffle; to award something by means of a raffle or random drawing

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rapol.