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Definitions for Lascar
ˈlæs kərlas·car
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Princeton's WordNet
lascarnoun
an East Indian sailor
Lascarnoun
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Wiktionary
lascarnoun
A sailor, army servant or artilleryman from India or Southeast Asia.
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Lascar
A lascar was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, British Somaliland, or other land east of the Cape of Good Hope, who was employed on European ships from the 16th century until the middle of the 20th century.
Webster Dictionary
Lascarnoun
a native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower
Etymology: [Per. & Hind. lashkar an army, an inferior artillery man, a cooly, a native sailor.]
Wikidata
Lascar
A lascar and was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian Subcontinent or other countries east of the Cape of Good Hope, employed on European ships from the 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The word comes from the Persian Lashkar, meaning military camp or army, and al-askar, the Arabic word for a guard or soldier. The Portuguese adapted this term to lascarim, meaning an Asian militiaman or seaman, especially those from the Indian Subcontinent. Lascars served on British ships under 'lascar' agreements. These agreements allowed shipowners more control than was the case in ordinary articles of agreement. The sailors could be transferred from one ship to another and retained in service for up to three years at one time. The name lascar was also used to refer to Indian servants, typically engaged by British military officers.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lascar
las′kar, n. a native East Indian sailor or camp-follower. [Hind.,—Pers. lashkari, a soldier.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
lascar
A native sailor in the East Indies; also, in a military sense, natives of India employed in pitching tents, or dragging artillery, as gun-lascars.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
lascar
In the East Indies, signifies properly a camp-follower, but is generally applied to native sailors on board of British ships. The Lascars make good seamen, but being of an excessively irritable and revengeful nature, are generally kept in the minority in a ship’s crew.
Etymology and Origins
Lascar
The generic name for an East Indian seaman, though it really expresses the Persian for a soldier, from lashkari, a camp-follower. Lascars were first employed by the East Indiamen homeward bound. Nowadays all Asiatic sailors, of whatever nationality, are called Lascars.
Anagrams for Lascar »
rascal
sacral
scalar
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lascar in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lascar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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- lascarGerman
- lascarGreek
- lascarSpanish
- LascarFrench
- काम-वासनाHindi
- pelaut orang IndiaIndonesian
- lascarPortuguese
- కళాసీTelugu
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