las・carの英語

別の表記

• Lascar, lashkar, laskar

語源

From Hindustani لشکر / लश्कर (laśkar), from Persian لشکر (laškar). Doublet of askari.

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名詞

lascar (plural lascars)

1. (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, published 2021, page 35:

     As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.

2. (Anglo-Indian) A tent-pitcher; also a type of artilleryman.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Pantoporia and Lasippa.

アナグラム

• Claars, Rascal, craals, rascal, sacral, sarlac, scalar