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lazar

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈleɪzə/Part of speech nounSorted aalrzStarts with LEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person afflicted with leprosy

Word origin

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".

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.”

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