lascar
English
Alternative forms
- Lascar, lashkar, laskar
Etymology
From Hindi लश्कर (laśkar), from Persian لشکر (lashkar).
Noun
lascar (plural lascars)
- (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 2021, p. 35:
- As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.
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- (Anglo-Indian) A tent-pitcher; also a type of artilleryman.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Pantoporia and Lasippa.
Anagrams
- Claars, Rascal, craals, rascal, sacral, sarlac, scalar
French
Noun
lascar m (plural lascars)
- lascar
Further reading
- “lascar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /lasˈka(ʁ)/ [lasˈka(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /lasˈka(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /laʃˈka(ʁ)/ [laʃˈka(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /lasˈka(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /lɐʃˈkaɾ/
- Hyphenation: las‧car
Verb
lascar (first-person singular present lasco, first-person singular preterite lasquei, past participle lascado)
- to chip
Conjugation
Conjugation of lascar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | lascar | |||||
| Personal | lascar | lascares | lascar | lascarmos | lascardes | lascarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| lascando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | lascado | lascados | ||||
| Feminine | lascada | lascadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | lasco | lascas | lasca | lascamos | lascais | lascam |
| Imperfect | lascava | lascavas | lascava | lascávamos | lascáveis | lascavam |
| Preterite | lasquei | lascaste | lascou | lascamos1, lascámos2 | lascastes | lascaram |
| Pluperfect | lascara | lascaras | lascara | lascáramos | lascáreis | lascaram |
| Future | lascarei | lascarás | lascará | lascaremos | lascareis | lascarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| lascaria | lascarias | lascaria | lascaríamos | lascaríeis | lascariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | lasque | lasques | lasque | lasquemos | lasqueis | lasquem |
| Imperfect | lascasse | lascasses | lascasse | lascássemos | lascásseis | lascassem |
| Future | lascar | lascares | lascar | lascarmos | lascardes | lascarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | lasca | lasque | lasquemos | lascai | lasquem | |
| Negative (não) | não lasques | não lasque | não lasquemos | não lasqueis | não lasquem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lasˈkaɾ/ [lasˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: las‧car
Verb
lascar (first-person singular present lasco, first-person singular preterite lasqué, past participle lascado)
- (nautical, transitive) to slacken; slip
Conjugation
Conjugation of lascar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | lascar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | lascando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | lascado | lascada | |||||
| plural | lascados | lascadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | lasco | lascastú lascásvos | lasca | lascamos | lascáis | lascan | |
| imperfect | lascaba | lascabas | lascaba | lascábamos | lascabais | lascaban | |
| preterite | lasqué | lascaste | lascó | lascamos | lascasteis | lascaron | |
| future | lascaré | lascarás | lascará | lascaremos | lascaréis | lascarán | |
| conditional | lascaría | lascarías | lascaría | lascaríamos | lascaríais | lascarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | lasque | lasquestú lasquésvos2 | lasque | lasquemos | lasquéis | lasquen | |
| imperfect (ra) | lascara | lascaras | lascara | lascáramos | lascarais | lascaran | |
| imperfect (se) | lascase | lascases | lascase | lascásemos | lascaseis | lascasen | |
| future1 | lascare | lascares | lascare | lascáremos | lascareis | lascaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | lascatú lascávos | lasque | lasquemos | lascad | lasquen | ||
| negative | no lasques | no lasque | no lasquemos | no lasquéis | no lasquen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of lascar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive lascar | |||||||
| dative | lascarme | lascarte | lascarle, lascarse | lascarnos | lascaros | lascarles, lascarse | |
| accusative | lascarme | lascarte | lascarlo, lascarla, lascarse | lascarnos | lascaros | lascarlos, lascarlas, lascarse | |
| with gerund lascando | |||||||
| dative | lascándome | lascándote | lascándole, lascándose | lascándonos | lascándoos | lascándoles, lascándose | |
| accusative | lascándome | lascándote | lascándolo, lascándola, lascándose | lascándonos | lascándoos | lascándolos, lascándolas, lascándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative lasca | |||||||
| dative | láscame | láscate | láscale | láscanos | not used | láscales | |
| accusative | láscame | láscate | láscalo, láscala | láscanos | not used | láscalos, láscalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative lascá | |||||||
| dative | lascame | lascate | lascale | lascanos | not used | lascales | |
| accusative | lascame | lascate | lascalo, lascala | lascanos | not used | lascalos, lascalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative lasque | |||||||
| dative | lásqueme | not used | lásquele, lásquese | lásquenos | not used | lásqueles | |
| accusative | lásqueme | not used | lásquelo, lásquela, lásquese | lásquenos | not used | lásquelos, lásquelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative lasquemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | lasquémoste | lasquémosle | lasquémonos | lasquémoos | lasquémosles | |
| accusative | not used | lasquémoste | lasquémoslo, lasquémosla | lasquémonos | lasquémoos | lasquémoslos, lasquémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative lascad | |||||||
| dative | lascadme | not used | lascadle | lascadnos | lascaos | lascadles | |
| accusative | lascadme | not used | lascadlo, lascadla | lascadnos | lascaos | lascadlos, lascadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative lasquen | |||||||
| dative | lásquenme | not used | lásquenle | lásquennos | not used | lásquenles, lásquense | |
| accusative | lásquenme | not used | lásquenlo, lásquenla | lásquennos | not used | lásquenlos, lásquenlas, lásquense | |
Further reading
- “lascar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014