rally

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæli/

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• Rhymes: -æli
• Hyphenation: ral‧ly

Etymology 1

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

Noun

rally (plural rallies)

1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

   a campaign rally

   an election rally

2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

   a political rally

3. (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
4. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
5. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

Hyponyms

• (increase in value): dead cat bounce

Derived terms

• counterrally
• pep rally
• rally cap

 

Translations

public gathering for a cause

• Arabic: تَجَمُّع m (tajammuʕ), مُظَاهَرَة f (muẓāhara), تَظَاهُر f (taẓāhur)
• Armenian: ցույց (hy) (cʻuycʻ), հանրահավաք (hy) (hanrahavakʻ)
• Azerbaijani: mitinq
• Belarusian: мі́тынг m (mítynh)
• Bulgarian: ми́тинг (bg) m (míting)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: míting m, comicis (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集會／集会 (zh) (jíhuì), 大會／大会 (zh) (dàhuì)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kokoontuminen (fi), puhetilaisuus; mielenosoitus (fi) (demonstration)
• French: rassemblement (fr) m, meeting (fr) m; demonstration: manifestation (fr) f
• Galician: mitin (gl) m
• Georgian: მასობრივი მიტინგი (masobrivi miṭingi), მიტინგი (miṭingi)
• German: Kundgebung (de) f
• Greek: συγκέντρωση (el) f (sygkéntrosi); demonstration: πολιτική συγκέντρωση f (politikí sygkéntrosi), διαδήλωση (el) f (diadílosi)
• Hebrew: עֲצֶרֶת (he) f ('atséret)
• Hungarian: tüntetés (hu)
• Italian: raduno (it) m; demonstration: manifestazione (it) f
• Japanese: 大会 (ja) (たいかい, taikai), 集会 (ja) (しゅうかい, shūkai)
• Khmer: សមជ្ជ (km) (saʼmaccĕəʼ), ក្បួនហែ (kbuən hae)
• Korean: 대회(大會) (ko) (daehoe), 집회(集會) (ko) (jiphoe)
• Latin: contiō f; demonstration: concursus populi m, protestatio popularis f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَظاهَرات (fa) (tazâharât), راهْپِیْمایی (râhpeymâyi)

• Polish: wiec (pl) m, manifestacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: comício (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ми́тинг (ru) m (míting)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: mitin (es) m, mitín m
• Swedish: samling (sv) c, massmöte n; demonstration: demonstration (sv) c, valmöte n
• Thai: การชุมนุม (th) (gaan-chum-num)
• Turkish: miting (tr)
• Ukrainian: мі́тинг m (mítynh)
• Uzbek: miting (uz)
• Vietnamese: cuộc vận động (vi), mít tinh (vi) (colloquial)

demonstration — see demonstration

tennis: sequence of strokes

• Bulgarian: размя́на (bg) f (razmjána)
• Catalan: intercanvi de cops (ca) m, piloteig (ca) m
• Czech: výměna (cs)
• Danish: duel (da) c
• German: Ballwechsel (de) m
• Maori: taupatupatu
• Norwegian: ballveksling m

motor racing: event

• Catalan: ral·li (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉力賽／拉力赛 (zh) (lālìsài)

• Czech: rallye (cs) f, rally (cs) f
• Finnish: ralli (fi)
• French: rallye (fr) m, rally (fr) m
• German: Rallye (de) f
• Greek: ράλι (el) n (ráli)
• Hungarian: rali (hu)
• Japanese: ラリー (ja) (rarī)
• Korean: 랠리 (raelli)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rally (no) n

  Nynorsk: rally n

• Polish: rajd (pl) m
• Portuguese: rali (pt) m
• Russian: ра́лли (ru) n (rálli), автора́лли (ru) n (avtorálli)
• Spanish: rally (es) m

a recovery after a decline in prices

• Bulgarian: възстановя́ване (bg) n (vǎzstanovjávane), оживле́ние (bg) n (oživlénie)
• Catalan: recuperació (ca) f

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

   Synonym: muster

2. (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.

   Synonym: unite

   • 1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:

     Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

   • 2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, “Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.

   Synonym: recuperate

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 40–41:

     Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget.

4. (business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.

   Synonyms: bounce back, rebound

   Antonym: decline

   • 2022 December 14, Nils Pratley, “Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary.

Derived terms

• boot and rally
• rally around
• rally around the flag
• rallying point
• rally round
• rally round the flag
• rally round the flag

 

Translations

to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion

• Bulgarian: прегрупирам (pregrupiram)
• French: rallier (fr)
• Norwegian: (mostly reflexive) regruppere (seg)
• Portuguese: reorganizar (pt), reunir (pt)
• Russian: сплачивать (ru) (splačivatʹ)
• Spanish: reagrupar (es), reunir (es), allegar (es)

to come into orderly arrangement

• Bulgarian: подреждам се (podreždam se)
• Dutch: verzamelen (nl)
• Finnish: kokoontua (fi)
• French: rallier (fr)
• Norwegian: samle seg, fylke seg
• Portuguese: reagrupar
• Spanish: reorganizar (es), ensamblar (es), unir (es), reunirse (es), juntarse (es), yuntarse, congregarse (es), aglomerarse (es)

to collect one's vital powers or forces

• Bulgarian: възстановявам се (vǎzstanovjavam se)
• Finnish: elpyä (fi), toipua (fi)
• Norwegian: komme seg, (idiomatic) komme til krefter
• Russian: оправля́ться (ru) (opravljátʹsja), восстана́вливать си́лы (vosstanávlivatʹ síly)
• Spanish: recobrarse (es), recuperarse (es), volver en sí

to recover strength after a decline in prices

• Bulgarian: покачвам се (pokačvam se)
• Dutch: herstellen (nl)
• Finnish: elpyä (fi), toipua (fi)
• Spanish: repuntar (es), recuperarse (es)

Etymology 2

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.iii:

     But you must not rally him on the subject Sir Oliver—'tis a tender Point I assure you though He has been married only seven months.

   • 1711 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, July 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 132; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1713 (indicated as 1714), [John] Gay, “Book I”, in The Fan. A Poem. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     Strephon had long confeſs'd his am'rous Pain, / VVhich gay Corinna railly'd vvith Diſdain: […]

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-making is Kept Up by Candle-light in the King’s House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 246:

     So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little Lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.

Noun

rally (uncountable)

1. Good-humoured raillery.

References

• “rally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ryall

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rally, from English rally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rali/ [ra.li]
• Rhymes: -ali

Noun

rally inan

1. (motor racing) rally

Declension

Declension of rally (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	rally	rallya	rallyak
ergative	rallyk	rallyak	rallyek
dative	rallyri	rallyari	rallyei
genitive	rallyren	rallyaren	rallyen
comitative	rallyrekin	rallyarekin	rallyekin
causative	rallyrengatik	rallyarengatik	rallyengatik
benefactive	rallyrentzat	rallyarentzat	rallyentzat
instrumental	rallyz	rallyaz	rallyez
inessive	rallytan	rallyan	rallyetan
locative	rallytako	rallyko	rallyetako
allative	rallytara	rallyra	rallyetara
terminative	rallytaraino	rallyraino	rallyetaraino
directive	rallytarantz	rallyrantz	rallyetarantz
destinative	rallytarako	rallyrako	rallyetarako
ablative	rallytatik	rallytik	rallyetatik
partitive	rallyrik	—	—
prolative	rallytzat	—	—

Further reading

• “rally”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛlɪ]

Noun

rally f (indeclinable)

1. rally (motor racing event)

   Synonym: rallye f

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛl.li/, /relˈli/^**
• Rhymes: -ɛlli, -i

Noun

rally m (invariable)

1. rally event involving groups of people

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rally.

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

• “rally” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rally.

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

• “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

1. Alternative spelling of rali

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrali/ [ˈra.li]
• Rhymes: -ali

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

1. (motor racing) rally

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “rally”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Swedish

Noun

rally n

1. (motor racing) rally

Declension

Declension of rally

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rally	rallys
	definite	rallyt	rallyts
plural	indefinite	rallyn	rallyns
	definite	rallyna	rallynas

References

• rally in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rally in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rally in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)