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laskar

laskar 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.

Forms of laskar

plurallaskars

Questions about laskar

What is laskar the alternative form of?
Laskar is the alternative form of lascar.

Words near laskar in the dictionary

  1. lasiurines
  2. Lasix
  3. lask
  4. Laska
  5. Laskaj
  6. laskar
  7. Laskaris
  8. laskars
  9. Laskas
  10. laske
  11. Lasker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laskar (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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