English word average comes from Arabic عوارية, English -age, Arabic عَوِرَ, Old Italian avaria
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| عوارية | Arabic (ara) | (accounting) damage in transit, average, the occurrence of transported goods being lost. |
| -age | English (en) | Forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance.. Forming nouns indicating a charge, toll, or fee. Forming nouns indicating a place. Forming nouns indicating a process, action, or a result. Forming nouns indicating a rate. Forming nouns of a state or relationship. |
| عَوِرَ | Arabic (ara) | |
| avaria | Old Italian (it-oit) | |
| عَوَار | Arabic (ara) | |
| عَوَارِيَّة | Arabic (ara) | |
| avaria | Italian (it) | Broken. Out of action Breakdown, failure (mechanical). Damage. |
| avarie | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | Damage done to goods on a watercraft when they are thrown overboard due to a risk of the watercraft capsizing. |
| average | English (en) | (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion. (UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the [...] |
