/
ˈhazəd/
n.
- a danger or risk.
- a permanent feature of a golf course which presents an obstruction to playing a shot.
- literary chance; probability.
- a gambling game using two dice.
- (in real tennis) each of the winning openings in the court.
- Billiards a stroke with which a ball is pocketed, especially (losing hazard) the pocketing of the cue ball off another ball, or (winning hazard) the pocketing of the object ball.
v.
- venture to say:
he hazarded a guess.
- risk the loss of.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. hasard, from Sp. azar, from Arab. az-zahr ‘chance’, from Pers. zār or Turk. zar ‘dice’.