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lazar¹

  • /ˈleɪzə/ UK

Sounds like laser, lazer · Rhymes with -eɪzə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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".

noun lazars · Lazar

  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.

    Similar: leper

adjective Lazar

  1. archaic, not comparable Synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.

    Similar: leprous

Lazar²

Where it comes from

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).

proper noun

  1. A British surname.

Lazar³

Where it comes from

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

proper noun

  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.

Lazar⁴

proper noun Laser · Lazer

  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.”

Lazar⁵

noun Lazars

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lazar

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@misc{lazar_2026,
  title = {lazar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lazar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}