# rally
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɹæli/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* 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)
* 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
* A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
    a political rally
* (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
* (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.
* (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
#### Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)
* (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
    Synonym: muster
* (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: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.
* (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.
* (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: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
### 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)
* (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)
* 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: /rali/ [ra.li]
* Rhymes: -ali

### Noun

rally inan
* (motor racing) rally

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrɛlɪ]

### Noun

rally f (indeclinable)
* rally (motor racing event)
    Synonym: rallye f

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛl.li/, /relˈli/$^{**}$
* Rhymes: -ɛlli, -i

### Noun

rally m (invariable)
* rally event involving groups of people

### References

* ↑ rally in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English rally.

### Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)
* 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)
* a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

### References

* “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Noun

rally m (plural rallys)
* Alternative spelling of rali

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrali/ [ˈra.li]
* Rhymes: -ali

### Noun

rally m (plural rallys)
* (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), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

rally n
* (motor racing) rally

#### Declension

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

### References

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