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Updated January 24, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : occupational name from ancient and medieval Greek laskaris, a kind of soldier, from Persian laeshkaer ‘army’. This is the same word as Urdu lascar ‘sailor’ and Arabic el-askari ‘the army’, ‘the troops’.

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