英语词汇hazard的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hazard
词源	hazard. Hazard has come to mean “random chance,” or “an unavoidable danger or risk, or something causing danger, peril or risk.” But the word originally meant a dice game, a usage it still has today. This is clearly seen in the word’s ancient ances- tor, the Arabic al, “the,” and zahr, “die.” Because the cast of the dice is uncertain or risky, the word came into Spanish as azar, “an unexpected accident,” this becoming the French hasard, which became the English hazard.
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