arpajaiset.
lottery, draw, raffle
Meaning & usage
lottery, draw, raffle
An activity in which the participants pay a fee and by that obtain a partially or fully random possibility to win a prize of monetary value.
Where this word comes from
arpa (“lot (something used to determine a question of chance)”) + -iainen. Coined by Finnish teacher and linguist Gustaf Erik Eurén in 1860.
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