# lascar
## English
### Alternative forms

* Lascar, lashkar, laskar

### Etymology

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

### 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, published 2021, page 35:As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.
* (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
### Etymology

From Hindustani لشکر / लश्कर (laśkar), itself from Persian لشکر.
Originally a nickname given in the early 19th century to Indian seamen on French ships travelling in the East Indies. With time, the term became somewhat pejorative.

### Noun

lascar m (plural lascars)
* lascar
* (somewhat derogatory) dude, guy

### Further reading

* “lascar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /lasˈka(ʁ)/ [lasˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /lasˈka(ʁ)/ [lasˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /lasˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /laʃˈka(ʁ)/ [laʃˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /lasˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐʃˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐʃˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /lɐʃˈka.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: las‧car

### Verb

lascar (first-person singular present lasco, first-person singular preterite lasquei, past participle lascado)
* to chip

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

## Spanish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | lascar | lascar | lascar | lascar | lascar |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | lascando | lascando | lascando | lascando | lascando |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | lascado | lascado | lascada | lascada |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | lascados | lascados | lascadas | lascadas |
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | 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 |
| indicative | present | lasco | lascas$^{tú}$ lascás$^{vos}$ | lasca | lascamos | lascáis | lascan |
| indicative | imperfect | lascaba | lascabas | lascaba | lascábamos | lascabais | lascaban |
| indicative | preterite | lasqué | lascaste | lascó | lascamos | lascasteis | lascaron |
| indicative | future | lascaré | lascarás | lascará | lascaremos | lascaréis | lascarán |
| indicative | conditional | lascaría | lascarías | lascaría | lascaríamos | lascaríais | lascarían |
| subjunctive | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| subjunctive | present | lasque | lasques$^{tú}$ lasqués$^{vos2}$ | lasque | lasquemos | lasquéis | lasquen |
| subjunctive | imperfect (ra) | lascara | lascaras | lascara | lascáramos | lascarais | lascaran |
| subjunctive | imperfect (se) | lascase | lascases | lascase | lascásemos | lascaseis | lascasen |
| subjunctive | future$^1$ | lascare | lascares | lascare | lascáremos | lascareis | lascaren |
| imperative | | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes |
| imperative | affirmative | | lasca$^{tú}$ lascá$^{vos}$ | lasque | lasquemos | lascad | lasquen |
| imperative | negative | | no lasques | no lasque | no lasquemos | no lasquéis | no lasquen |
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “lascar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014