hazard

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English

Etymology

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæ.zɚd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaz.əd/

Noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]

3. (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
8. Chance. [from 16th c.]
9. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
10. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
11. (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Synonyms

• (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of suffering harm): adventure
• (anything hazarded or risked): bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)

1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
2. To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

Derived terms

• hazard a guess

Translations

Further reading

• “hazard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hasard, from Old French hasart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦazart]

Noun

hazard m inan

1. gambling
2. risk, gamble

Declension

References

French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. Archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800

Italian

Noun

hazard m (invariable)

1. hazard lights (on a vehicle)

Middle French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. hazard; obstacle

Descendants

• French: hasard

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.zart/
• Rhymes: -azart
• Syllabification: ha‧zard

Noun

hazard m inan

1. (singular only) gambling
2. (electronics) race condition

Declension

Further reading

• hazard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hazard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hasard.

Noun

hazard n (plural hazarduri)

1. hazard

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xǎzard/
• Hyphenation: ha‧zard

Noun

hàzard m (Cyrillic spelling ха̀зард)

1. gamble, gambling
2. risk, hazard

Declension