hazer

haze +‎ -er

• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

hazer (plural hazers)

1. One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation.
2. The rodeo performer who hazes the steer.

From Proto-Iranian *hajáhram, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-ǵʰéslom, from *ǵʰéslom. The source is probably a Scythian language; compare Ossetian ӕрзӕ (ærzæ, with metathesis). Compare further Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀‎ (hazaŋra), Persian هزار‎ (hezâr). See also sada (“hundred”).

hazer

1. thousand
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     , in Latin

     Viginti dicebat stega, triginta treithyen, quadraginta furdeithien, centum sada, hazer mille.

     For twenty he said stega, for thirty treithyen, for forty furdeithien, for a hundred sada, for a thousand hazer.