Lazar

See also: lazar and Lázár

English

Etymology 1

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

Lazar

1. A British surname.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Lazar, ultimately from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Proper noun

Lazar

1. A Serbian male given name from Serbo-Croatian
   • 1857 May, “Life in Servia”, in The Young Men’s Magazine, volume 1, number 1, page 15:

     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.

   • 1861, George W. M. Reynolds, “The Death of Murad”, in The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories, London: John Dicks, page 88:

     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.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• Laser, Lazer

Proper noun

Lazar

1. An Ashkenazi Jewish surname.
   • 1980, Stanley Nash, In Search of Hebraism (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 191:

     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 4

Noun

Lazar (plural Lazars)

1. Alternative letter-case form of lazar

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâzaːr/
• Hyphenation: La‧zar

Proper noun

Lȁzār m (Cyrillic spelling Ла̏за̄р)

1. a male given name, Lazarus

Declension

Declension of Lazar

	singular
nominative	Lazar
genitive	Lazara
dative	Lazaru
accusative	Lazara
vocative	Lazare
locative	Lazaru
instrumental	Lazarom