Definition of "Lazar"

The Servians have a legend, which gives a terrible picture of this national virtue:“Day departs, and the moon shines upon the white fields of snow. A stranger enters the dwelling of poor Lazar.

1857 May, “Life in Servia”, in The Young Men’s Magazine, volume 1, number 1, page 15

It was on the morning after the arrival of the Mussulman forces upon the plain of Kossova, that a herald, accompanied by a small escort, demanded an interview with the Sultan Murad, on the part of his master, Lazar, the King of Servia.

1861, George W. M. Reynolds, “The Death of Murad”, in The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories, London: John Dicks, page 88

At that time S.M. Lazar, editor in Cracow of the new Hebrew nespaper, Ha-Miṣpeh, had accused Hurwitz and his editor, Yosef Klausner, of anarchism, sacrilege, and “missionizing.”

1980, Stanley Nash, In Search of Hebraism (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 191