zara
Basque
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- Rhymes: -aɾa
- Hyphenation: za‧ra
Verb
editzara
Hausa
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editzàrā f (possessed form zàrar̃)
- vacillation (moving from side to side)
Etymology 2
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editzā̀r̃ā f (possessed form zā̀r̃ar̃)
- red-bellied tree starling
Etymology 3
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editzàrā (grade 2)
Italian
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editFrom Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). The "loss" meaning derives from the habit of game players to yell out the game's name whenever a losing number came out. Doublet of azzardo.
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editzara f (plural zare)
- (historical, games) a medieval game of chance using dice
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto VI, lines 1–3:
- Quando si parte il gioco de la zara, ¶ colui che perde si riman dolente, ¶ repetendo le volte, e tristo impara;
- Whene'er is broken up the game of Zara, ¶ he who has lost remains behind despondent, ¶ the throws repeating, and in sadness learns
- (archaic) a negative outcome, loss, defeat
- zara a chi tocca! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “loss to whomever's turn it is [to lose]!”, as in “the losers must accept their loss”)
- 1478, Luigi Pulci, Morgante[1], Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, Canto XVIII, page 28:
- Nè vo’ che tu credessi ch’io mi curi ¶ contro a questo o colui: zara a chi tocca
- And never, ever think that I may care whose toes I step on: let the loser pay!
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edit- zara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latvian
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editzara m
Venetan
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editNoun
editzara
Further reading
edit- Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “zara”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 806c
Volapük
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editzara
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