[ 'hazəd ]
■ noun
1》 a danger or risk.
2》 a permanent feature of a golf course which presents an obstruction to playing a shot.
3》 literary chance; probability.
4》 a gambling game using two dice.
5》 (in real tennis) each of the winning openings in the court.
6》 Billiards a stroke with which a ball is pocketed, especially ( losing ~ ) the pocketing of the cue ball off another ball, or ( winning ~ ) the pocketing of the object ball.
■ verb
1》 venture to say: he ~ed a guess.
2》 risk the loss of.
Origin
ME: from OFr. hasard , from Sp. azar , from Arab. az-zahr 'chance', from Pers. zār or Turk. zar 'dice'.