lazar

• 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 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".

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪzə/
• Homophones: laser, lazer

lazar (plural lazars)

1. (archaic) Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 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, stanza XVI, page 57:

     Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts
     Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?

lazar (not comparable)

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

• “lazar, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Inherited from Latin glaciāre. Synchronically lazo +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): [laˈθaɾ]

lazar (first-person singular present lazo, first-person singular preterite lacei, past participle lazado)

1. to freeze

   Synonyms: conxelar, xear

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lazar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lazar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lazar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin laqueus.

• IPA^(key): /laˈθaɾ/ [laˈθaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /laˈsaɾ/ [laˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: la‧zar

lazar (first-person singular present lazo, first-person singular preterite lacé, past participle lazado)

1. (transitive) to lasso, to rope

• lacear

• “lazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “lazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024