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Surname "Lazar" :
- Jewish, German, Hungarian (Lázár), Slovenian, and Polish surname: from a personal name of Aramaic origin, a reduced form of the Hebrew male personal name "Elazar", composed of the elements "El" ‘God’ + "azar" ‘help’, and meaning ‘may God help him’ or ‘God has helped (i.e., by granting a son)’. This was well established in central Europe as a Jewish name, but was also popular among Christians because it is recorded in the New Testament. "Lazaros" is the New Testament Greek form of the name of the brother of Martha and Mary, who was restored to life by Christ (John 11: 1–44). As a non-Jewish name it was also used as a nickname for a beggar or an outcast leper; this use arises from the parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke 16: 19–31). It may also be Greek, a shortened form of a patronymic based on this name, for example "Lazarakis", "Lazaridis", "Lazaroglou", "Lazaropoulos".
- Slovenian: topographic name for someone who lived in a area of cleared woodland, from "laz" ‘cleared woodland’ + the agent noun suffix "-ar".
Surname "Lazare" : French: from the Biblical personal name (see "Lazar").
(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
Noun "lazaretto" : 1540s, "house for reception of lepers and diseased poor persons," from Italian 'lazareto' "place set aside for performance of quarantine" (especially that of Venice, which received many ships from plague-infested districts in the East), from the Biblical proper name "Lazarus". Meaning "building set apart for quarantine" is c.1600 in English.