lazar

/ˈleɪzə/

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".

lazar means synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.

Why this word is great

LAZAR — [Noun] An archaic term for a person afflicted with a contagious, isolating disease such as leprosy; also a resonant personal name. From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus ("leper"), an antonomasia from Lazarus, the Biblical figure, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (El'azar, "God has helped"). Unlike "leper," a clinical descriptor, or "pariah," a broad term for social exile, "lazar" evokes the specific, medieval terror of the contagious outcast—a name of divine aid shrouded in mortal ruin. It is the muffled clapper of a warning bell, the crude cross sewn onto a tunic, the hollow cry of "Unclean!" from a prescribed distance—a testament to the primal alchemy that transforms a person into their own quarantine.

adj

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

noun

Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.“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.”

name

A British surname.
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.”
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.””