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lashkar

lashkar is the alternative form of lascar.

Meaning of lascar

Noun

lascar (plural lascars)

  1. (historical) A sailor from India or Southeast Asia, especially as serving on a European ship.
    • A motley crowd saunters along the streets — Lascars off a P. and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence
  2. A tent-pitcher; also a type of artilleryman.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Pantoporia and Lasippa.

Proper noun capitalized: Lashkar

Lashkar

  1. A city in Madhya Pradesh, India.
  2. The Islamic militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (Urdu: لشکرِ طیبه (“Army of the Pure”)), based in Pakistan. Also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, or Lashkar-i-Toiba.

Forms of lashkar

plurallashkars

Origin of lashkar

Borrowed from Urdu لشکرِ (“army”).

Questions about lashkar

What does lashkar mean?
Lashkar means a city in Madhya Pradesh, India.
What is lashkar the alternative form of?
Lashkar is the alternative form of lascar.
What part of speech is lashkar?
Lashkar is a proper noun.

Words near lashkar in the dictionary

  1. lashing up
  2. lashingly
  3. lashings
  4. lashins
  5. Lashio
  6. lashkar
  7. Lashkari
  8. lashkars
  9. lashless
  10. lashlessness
  11. Lashley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lashkar (page history and authors); Lashkar (page history and authors); lascar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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