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lazar

UK/ˈleɪzə/

lazar noun: synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.

Noun (1)

lazar (plural lazars)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
    • And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts
      Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    leper

Adjective

lazar (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
    Synonyms:
    leprous

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Lazar

Lazar

  1. A British surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lazar

Lazar

  1. A Serbian male given name from Serbo-Croatian.
    • The Servians have a legend, which gives a terrible picture of this national virtue:
      “Day departs, and the moon shines upon the white fields of snow. A stranger enters the dwelling of poor Lazar.1857 May, “Life in Servia”, in The Young Men’s Magazine, volume 1, number 1, page 15
    • It was on the morning after the arrival of the Mussulman forces upon the plain of Kossova, that a herald, accompanied by a small escort, demanded an interview with the Sultan Murad, on the part of his master, Lazar, the King of Servia.1861, George W. M. Reynolds, “The Death of Murad”, in The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories, London: John Dicks, page 88

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Lazar

Lazar

  1. An Ashkenazi Jewish surname.
    • At that time S.M. Lazar, editor in Cracow of the new Hebrew nespaper, Ha-Miṣpeh, had accused Hurwitz and his editor, Yosef Klausner, of anarchism, sacrilege, and “missionizing.”1980, Stanley Nash, In Search of Hebraism (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 191

Noun (2) capitalized: Lazar

Lazar (plural Lazars)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lazar.

Synonyms of lazar

Forms of lazar

Noun
plurallazars
alternative formLazar
pluralLazars
Proper noun
alternative formLaser
alternative formLazer

Origin of lazar

From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical figure found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped".

From Middle English [Term?], from lazare (“leper”), from Old French lazare, from Latin lazarus, from Lazarus (name of a biblical figure), from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār).

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Lazar, ultimately from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār).

Words formed from lazar

Phrases with lazar

Words that rhyme with lazar

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Questions about lazar

What does lazar mean?
Lazar means synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
What part of speech is lazar?
Lazar can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lazar?
Lazar is pronounced /ˈleɪzə/ (UK).
What is the plural of lazar?
The plural of lazar is lazars.

Words near lazar in the dictionary

  1. Layyah
  2. Laz
  3. lazabemide
  4. Lazalde
  5. Lazaldes
  6. lazar
  7. lazar house
  8. lazar houses
  9. lazar-house
  10. lazar-houses
  11. Lazard

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