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las⋅car

  [las-ker]
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–noun
1. an East Indian sailor.
2. Anglo-Indian. an artilleryman.
Also, lashkar.

Origin:
1615–25; < Pg, short for lasquarin soldier < Urdu lashkarī < Pers, equiv. to lashkar army + -ī suffix of appurtenance
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las·car   (lās'kər)   
n.  An East Indian sailor, army servant, or artillery trooper.

[Urdu lashkar, army, from Persian, from Arabic al-'askar, the army : al-, the + 'askar, army.]
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