rifa

See also: RIFA, rífa, rifá, rifà, and rifa'

Catalan

Verb

rifa

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

Galician

Etymology 1

From rifar (“to quarrel; to raffle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrifa̝/

Noun

rifa f (plural rifas)

1. quarrel; brawl
   • 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Contos da aldea que parecen historias da vila e historias da vila que parecen contos da aldea, Vigo: El Album del Miño, page 224:

     E logo ese caliveira de ese soldado que a rifa foi o que armou na taberna e na trenla estar debía agora

     And then again, this party animal, this soldier who started the brawl at the tavern and who now should be in jail

2. raffle

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rifa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rifa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rifa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

rifa

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

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse rífa (“to tear apart”), Proto-Germanic *rīfaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to tear, cut”).

Cognate with Scottish rive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪːva/
• Rhymes: -ɪːva

Noun

rifa f (genitive singular rifu, nominative plural rifur)

1. a tear, a rip, a rift, a rent
2. a gap, a slit, a crack, a cleft, a fissure

Declension

Declension of rifa (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rifa	rifan	rifur	rifurnar
accusative	rifu	rifuna	rifur	rifurnar
dative	rifu	rifunni	rifum	rifunum
genitive	rifu	rifunnar	rifa, rifna	rifanna, rifnanna

Derived terms

• bjargrifa
• klettarifa

Anagrams

• arfi

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Spanish rifa.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.fɐ/ [ˈhi.fɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.fɐ/ [ˈhi.fɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.fɐ/ [ˈχi.fɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.fa/ [ˈhi.fa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.fɐ/

• Hyphenation: ri‧fa

Noun

rifa f (plural rifas)

1. raffle (drawing in which tickets are sold to win a prize)

Etymology 2

Verb

rifa

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrifa/ [ˈri.fa]
• Rhymes: -ifa
• Syllabification: ri‧fa

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

rifa f (plural rifas)

1. lottery, raffle

   Synonym: sorteo

2. contention, strife

Related terms

• rifar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

rifa

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

Further reading

• “rifa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10