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according to wiktionary, they both originate from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). presumably frenchmen were simply wont to add a bunch of silent letter
by Hello71 5y ago
according to wiktionary, they both originate from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). presumably frenchmen were simply wont to add a bunch of silent letters.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hasard https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hasard
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/azar https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/azar
- ivankolev 5y agoAs another linguistic point, in Bulgarian 'зар' means dice
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoZar in Balkan languages – it exists in e.g. Romanian and Albanian as well – is an Ottoman-era loanword from Turkish, which in turn borrowed it from Perso-Arabic (i.e. possibly directly from Arabic, but more likely through Persian mediation).
- jogjayr 5y agoHuh, "azar" also means "illness" in Marathi (आजार), although that's not on the Wiktionary page. Coincidence or is it a loanword in Marathi as well?
- narag 5y agoaccording to wiktionary, they both originate from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Just like Latin where Spanish "aleatorio" comes from: alea = dice. Caesar's famous words "alea jacta est" = "dice has been thrown".
- Rexxar 5y agoThe "h" is necessary to indicate there is no liaison with the previous word and the "d" is an indication that that derivative words use a non-silent "d" (like "hasardeux").