draw lots

English

Alternative forms

• cast lots

Verb

draw lots (third-person singular simple present draws lots, present participle drawing lots, simple past drew lots, past participle drawn lots)

1. To choose by random chance.

Hyponyms

• draw straws
• pick out of a hat
• toss a coin

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: treure a sorts, sortejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 拈鬮／拈阄 (zh-min-nan)

• Finnish: arpoa (fi)
• French: tirer au sort (fr)
• Galician: sortear (gl), botar a sortes
• German: auslosen (de), knobeln (de)
• Italian: tirare a sorte, sorteggiare (it), estrarre a sorte
• Polish: losować (pl) impf, wylosować pf
• Portuguese: sortear (pt)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: losować (hsb) impf

• Spanish: echar a suertes, sortear (es)
• Swedish: dra lott, lotta (sv)
• Turkish: adçekmek
• Welsh: tynnu cwtws

References

• “draw lots”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “to draw lots”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “draw lots” (US) / “draw lots” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “draw lots straws” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.

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