lazar
/ˈleɪzə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
Archaic
adj
Synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
Archaic
name
A British surname.
name
A Serbian male given name from Serbo-Croatian.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of lazar.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?"
- "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."
- "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."
- "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.”"
Etymology
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".
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈleɪzə/