Pronunciation | Serbo-Croatian: [lâzaːr] |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Hebrew |
Meaning | God has helped |
Region of origin | Eastern Europe |
Other names | |
Derived | Eleazar |
Related names | Lazarus |
Lazar (JPA: לִיעֶזֶר or לָעְזָר, romanized: Lāzār, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Лазарь, romanized: Lazar; Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian: Лазар, romanized: Lazar) is a male given name or a surname. An abbreviation of the Hebrew name אֶלְעָזָר Eleazar or אֱלִיעֶזֶר Eliezer meaning 'God has helped'[1] which first appeared in Jewish Aramaic (see Lazarus and Eleazar ben Shammua) and is especially common in various Slavic languages.