Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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hazard

UK /ˈhæzəd/ · US /ˈhæzɚd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hazards hazarding hazarded

  1. noun (now chiefly historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
  2. noun Chance; accident, unpredictability.
  3. noun (uncountable) The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome. “He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.”
  4. noun (countable) A situation involving such a risk of harm or loss; (later also) a person or object which poses such a risk, something seen as a source of danger or difficulty. “The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.”
  5. noun (real tennis) Each of the various openings or galleries around the side of a court.
  6. noun (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
  7. noun (billiards) A stroke which results in potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
  8. noun (golf) Something which prevents free striking of the ball, such as a sand or water obstacle.
  9. verb To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  10. verb To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on. “I'll hazard a guess.”
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

Synonyms

fortune adventure bet pledge skin in the game wager luck jeopardy peril risk endangerment chance guess venture pretend stake jeopardize gamble take chances run a risk take a chance

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.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer.
  2. noun The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
  3. verb To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
  4. verb To venture to incur, or bring on. I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak.

Etymology [F. hazard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zar, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzar.]

Etymology [Cf. F. hazarder. See Hazard, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hazard”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “hazard” (best matches first).