tambiolo – English noun declension

English noun forms of tambiolo

Noun: tambiolo
Singulartambiolo
Pluraltambiolos

Sample Sentences

  • The lottery during the time of José Rizal used the traditional manually operated tambiolo where numbers were drawn for the winning combinations. [2010 November 30, Perseus Echeminada, “Rizal a lottery winner in 1892”, in The Philippine Star, retrieved 25 Jun 2020:]
  • A few days ago, the Manila police raided one such bingo game in the Blumentritt area. The police grabbed pieces of evidence, such as the tambiolo from which the winning numbers are taken, and cards, in the process of which there was a scuffle and the uniform of a policeman and the T-shirt of a Sangguniang Kabataan chair were torn. [2013 February 19, Neal H. Cruz, “Is bingo an illegal numbers game or not?”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer, retrieved 25 Jun 2020:]
  • 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. [2016 July 5, Sandy Araneta, “‘Tambiolo land reform’ slammed”, in The Manila Standard, retrieved 25 Jun 2020:]
  • Through a dubious “tambiolo” method, 5,718 Certificates of Land Ownership (CLOA) were distributed to farmers. [2016, Arnisson Andre Ortega, “The Business of Building a Nation”, in Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines: Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession, Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), →ISBN, page 61:]

Etymology

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