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English word average comes from Arabic عوارية, English -age, Arabic عَوِرَ, Old Italian avaria
عوارية (Arabic)
(accounting) damage in transit, average, the occurrence of transported goods being lost.
-age (English)
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)
avaria (Old Italian)
عَوَار (Arabic)
عَوَارِيَّة (Arabic)
avaria (Italian)
Broken. Out of action Breakdown, failure (mechanical). Damage.
avarie (Old French)
Damage done to goods on a watercraft when they are thrown overboard due to a risk of the watercraft capsizing.
average (English)
(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 [...]