tambiolo

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fish bowl or barrel-shaped container where balls used in a raffle or a lottery are placed. In the case of a raffle, tickets may also be used. Can be made out of wire, glass, clear plastic, etc. Often has a handle, which, when rotated, mixes up the balls or tickets. Philippines
    — The lottery during the time of José Rizal used the traditional manually operated tambiolo where numbers were drawn for the winning combinations.
  2. A system by which the government gives out assets, such as land, supposedly at random, but which some feel is actually rigged. Philippines
    — The “tambiolo land reform” in the Cojuangco- and Aquino-owned Hacienda Luisita sugar estate is a fraud and the fact that the lawyer of the estate is defending the process is sufficient proof that former Agrarian Reform secretary Virgilio Delos Reyes was conniving with the landowners.

词形变化

tambiolos plural tambola alternative

词源

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish tambiolo, from tambo + -i- + Italian -olo. See also Spanish tómbola, which is also from Italian tombola. Compare Tagalog tambiyolo.
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