zara
See also: Zara, zarā, zară, and žara
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s̻aɾa/, [s̻a.ɾa]
Verb
zara
- Second-person singular (zu) present indicative form of izan.
Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zà.ɽáː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [zə̀.ɽáː]
Noun
zàrā f (possessed form zàrar̃)
- vacillation (moving from side to side)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zàː.ráː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [zàː.ráː]
Noun
zā̀r̃ā f (possessed form zā̀r̃ar̃)
- red-bellied tree starling
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zà.ɽáː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [zə̀.ɽáː]
Verb
zàrā (grade 2)
- to snatch, to grab
Italian
Alternative forms
- azara, azzara, zaro (rare)
Etymology
From 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈd͡za.ra/
- Rhymes: -ara
- Hyphenation: zà‧ra
Noun
zara 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
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- (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, 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!
Related terms
- azzardo
Further reading
- zara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latvian
Noun
zara m
- genitive singular form of zars
Venetian
Etymology
Compare Italian giara.
Noun
zara
- jar
Further reading
- Boerio, Giuseppe (1867), “zara”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 806c
Volapük
Noun
zara
- genitive singular of zar