Lascar

Definitions: Lascar

Lascar

Noun

1. An East Indian sailor.

2. A volcano in the Andes in Chile.

Date "lascar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Note: Lascar \Las"car\, noun. [Per. Hind. lashkar an army, an inferior artillery man, cooly, native sailor.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Lascar A native East Indian sailor in the British service. The natives of the East Indies call camp-followers lascars. (Hindu, lash-kar, a soldier.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LASCAR	English	Large Scale Reprocessing	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: Lascar

English words defined with "lascar": Serang. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lascar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (lascar), Portuguese (break, chip, cleave, scale, slash, Spall, splinter, split), Spanish (Lascar).

"Lascar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Lascar" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	75%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	25%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "lascar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏بحار هندي. (various references)

Bulgarian		Индийски Моряк. (various references)

Danish		Large Scale Reprocessing. (various references)

Dutch		Large Scale Reprocessing. (various references)

Farsi		توپچی هندشرقی(درارتش انگلیس), ازکلمه 'لشکر'فارسی . (various references)

French		Large Scale Reprocessing, Matelot Indien. (various references)

German		Large Scale Reprocessing (L arge S cale R eprocessing). (various references)

Greek		Large Scale Reprocessing (L arge S cale R eprocessing), Ναύτησ Των Α. Ινδίων. (various references)

Hungarian		tisztiszolga (bat, batman, orderly, striker), matróz (boatman, boatmen, jack-tar, matelot, ordinary seaman, private, sailor, seaman, tar), laszkár. (various references)

Italian		Large Scale Reprocessing (L arge S cale R eprocessing). (various references)

Manx		shiaulteyr Injinagh, lascar. (various references)

Pig Latin		ascarlay

Portuguese		Large Scale Reprocessing (L arge S cale R eprocessing). (various references)

Romanian		Marinar Indian. (various references)

Russian		Матрос-индиец. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		laskar. (various references)

Spanish		Lascar (running, to give slack), Large Scale Reprocessing (L arge S cale R eprocessing). (various references)

Turkish		Hintli Gemici. (various references)

Ukranian		Матрос-інді�"ць. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuỷ thủ người Ân. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Pegusa lascaris, sole pelouse, sole pole, VE sole de sable, VE Solea lascaris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lascar": lascars. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lascar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alcar, Alucard, ascar, lacsar, lasc, lascard, Lascari, lasce, Lasco, Lavski, Liscia, lsca. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "lascar" (pronounced 'Las"car'): Altincar, Trocar, Unvicar. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: craals, rascal, sacral, scalar.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-r-s"
	-1 letter: carls, craal, sacra.
	-2 letters: aals, alar, alas, arcs, carl, cars, casa, lacs, lars, scar.
	-3 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, arc, ars, car, lac, lar, las, ras, sac, sal.
	-4 letters: aa, al, ar, as, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-r-s"
	+1 letter: calcars, carpals, lascars, rascals, sacrals, scalare, scalars.
	+2 letters: accruals, acerolas, alcazars, berascal, caesural, calamars, calcspar, calderas, caltraps, caporals, capsular, caracals, caracols, caraculs, caramels, caravels, carloads, carousal, ceramals, clarkias, claustra, crayolas, flatcars, fractals, labrusca, lacunars, placards, radicals, railcars, rascally, saccular, scalares, scapular, vascular.
	+3 letters: acrosomal, acrylates, albacores, ancestral, arsenical, auriculas, avascular, balancers, barnacles, berascals, brachials, braciolas, cabrillas, cadastral, calamaris, calcspars, calendars, calvarias, calvaries, calyptras, canallers, caracoles, carbamyls, carbaryls, cardinals, carnivals, carousals, carryalls, cartloads, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavalries, charcoals, claptraps, claustral, claywares, coalyards, crawlways, escalader, escalator, flancards, flashcard, lacerates, lacrimals, marshalcy, parlances, placaters, racialism, racialist, rascality, satirical, scalogram, scapulars, simulacra, tailraces.
	+4 letters: abstractly, acclaimers, acrostical, afterclaps, alacrities, alacritous, allocators, altercates, applecarts, archangels, arsenicals, ascribable, aspherical, backlasher, barcaroles, berascaled, broadscale, caballeros, cablegrams, calamaries, calcareous, calibrates, calvariums, camarillas, campestral, carambolas, caramelise, carbachols, carbazoles, carnassial, carnelians, cartilages, carvacrols, cascarilla, catalogers, catalyzers, caterwauls, cathedrals, cellarages, chaparrals, charladies, charlatans, cladograms, clapboards, clathrates, clearances, crawlspace, cuadrillas, curtalaxes, cycloramas, declarants, escaladers, escalators, escalatory, factorials, fascicular, flagrances, flashcards, landscaper, macroscale, majuscular, naviculars, paralytics, portulacas, practicals, racialisms, racialists, radicalise, radicalism, ramshackle, rebalances, reescalate, sacerdotal, sacroiliac, saltcellar, sarcolemma, sarcoplasm, sarcosomal, scalograms, scarlatina, scleromata, searchable, slavocracy, spiracular, trabeculas, trackballs, ultrabasic, varicellas.
	+5 letters: accelerants, accelerates, accessorial, acrylamides, aeroelastic, ahistorical, aliteracies, altarpieces, ancestrally, ancillaries, applicators, articulates, backlashers, backslapper, barcarolles, berascaling, biracialism, blackamoors, blackboards, blackguards, blackhearts, blackwaters, cadastrally, cakewalkers, calamanders, calculators, calibrators, camelopards, candelabras, capillaries, caramelised, caramelises, caramelizes, carboxylase, cardplayers, carmagnoles, carnalities, carnallites, carnassials, cartularies, cascarillas, cataloguers, cavalierism, chalkboards, cladocerans, collaterals, coloraturas, craftsmanly, crawlspaces, culinarians, defalcators, desacralize, discardable, drastically, ejaculators, emasculator, flagrancies, halocarbons, icosahedral, increasable, isallobaric, lacerations, lacrimators, landscapers, laparoscope, laparoscopy, lumbosacral, macroscales, malefactors, marshalcies, metacarpals, nonvascular, paradisical, paraplegics, parasitical, particulars, patristical, pharisaical, piscatorial, postcranial, prosaically, provascular, purchasable, quacksalver, racewalkers, racialistic, radicalised, radicalises, radicalisms, radicalizes, radicalness, rapaciously, rapscallion, rascalities, reallocates, recanalizes, reescalated, reescalates, relandscape, rhapsodical, sacramental, sacrificial, sacroiliacs, saltcellars, sarcolemmal, sarcolemmas, sarcoplasms, satirically, scalariform, scarlatinal, scarlatinas, secretarial, spacewalker, spectacular, straitlaced, strategical, subcapsular, tabernacles, theatricals, thrasonical, tracklayers, translocate, ultrabasics, ultracasual, vacillators, vascularity, vasculature, vernaculars.
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