/
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’.