[ˈhazəd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a danger or risk
(e.g: the hazards of childbirth)

- chance; probability
(e.g: we can form no calculation concerning the laws of hazard)

- a gambling game using two dice, in which the chances are complicated by arbitrary rules

- (in real tennis) each of the winning openings in the court

- a stroke with which a ball is pocketed


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Origin:
Middle English (in hazard): from Old French hasard, from Spanish azar, from Arabic az-zahr ‘chance, luck’, from Persian zār or Turkish zar ‘dice’

[ˈhazəd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- say (something) in a tentative way
(e.g: he hazarded a guess)

- put (something) at risk of being lost
(e.g: the cargo business is too risky to hazard money on)


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Origin:
Middle English (in hazard): from Old French hasard, from Spanish azar, from Arabic az-zahr ‘chance, luck’, from Persian zār or Turkish zar ‘dice’