What does "lazar" mean?
Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
Lazar
adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
- Grammar: lazar is listed as adj, name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: family name, forename, given name, last name.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation. archaic
"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."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of lazar. alt-of
- 3 a person afflicted with leprosy wordnet
Adjective
- 1 Synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation. archaic, not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 A British surname.
- 2 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."
- 3 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.”"
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "lazar"?
Common synonyms include: family name, forename, given name, last name, leper, personal name.
How do you use "lazar" in a sentence?
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.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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 character 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".
Etymology 2
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).
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Lazar, ultimately from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār).