Noun: zara
Gender: f
Hyphenation: zà‧ra
| Singular f | zara |
| Plural f | zare |
Sample Sentences
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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) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto VI, lines 1–3:]
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zara a chi tocca!
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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!) [1478, Luigi Pulci, Morgante, Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, Canto XVIII, page 28:]
Nouns inflected like zara
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
Verbs referencing "zara"
French Nouns
hasard, Portuguese Nouns
azar, Catalan Nouns
atzar.
Translations