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Three lascars.

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Etymology

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From Hindustani لشکر / लश्कर (laśkar), from Persian لشکر (laškar). Doublet of askari. Compare Sylheti ꠟꠡ꠆ꠇꠞ (lośxor).

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lascar (plural lascars)

  1. (now chiefly historical) A sailor from India or Southeast Asia, especially as serving on a European ship.
    • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence:
      A motley crowd saunters along the streets — Lascars off a P. and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
      ...and what foreigner is it, exactly, that Pirate has in mind if it isn't that stateless lascar across his own mirror-glass, that poorest of exiles...
    • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 35:
      As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.
  2. (Anglo-Indian) A tent-pitcher; also a type of artilleryman.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Pantoporia and Lasippa.

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Etymology

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From Hindustani لشکر / लश्कर (laśkar), itself from Persian لشکر. Compare Sylheti ꠟꠡ꠆ꠇꠞ (lośxor).

Originally a nickname given in the early 19th century to Indian seamen on French ships travelling in the East Indies. With time, the term became somewhat pejorative.

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lascar m (plural lascars)

  1. lascar
  2. (somewhat derogatory) dude, guy

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Compare Sylheti ꠟꠡ꠆ꠇꠞ (lośxor).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: las‧car

Verb

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lascar (first-person singular present lasco, first-person singular preterite lasquei, past participle lascado)

  1. to chip

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Compare Sylheti ꠟꠡ꠆ꠇꠞ (lośxor).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lasˈkaɾ/ [lasˈkaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: las‧car

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lascar (first-person singular present lasco, first-person singular preterite lasqué, past participle lascado)

  1. (nautical, transitive) to slacken; slip

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