Translation
chance, coincidence
Word origin
From French hasard, which reached Europe through Spanish azar from Arabic az-zahr ('the dice'). English hazard is the same word, though it drifted towards danger while the Esperanto kept the dice-roll sense.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Root
- az-zahr
- English cognates
- hazard
Examples
, is.
It was pure chance that we met.
vivon.
Only chance saved his life.
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That is not chance, but a plan.
A false friend to watch: English "hazard" means danger, but means chance, the blind roll of the dice the Arabic root originally named. Danger is . The adverb hazarde ('by chance') is the form you will actually use most: hazarde covers "I happened to find it". Hazarda means random or accidental, and hazardludo, literally a chance-game, is gambling. When fate feels less random and more written, Esperanto reaches for instead.
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