Tajik
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy.
Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Tajik (plural Tajiks)
- A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.
- 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 48:
- “True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”
Translations
[edit]person
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Proper noun
[edit]Tajik
- The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan.
Translations
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See also
[edit]- Wiktionary’s coverage of Tajik terms
- Appendix:Tajik Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Tajik
- Wikipedia article on the Tajiki-Persian language
Further reading
[edit]- ISO 639-1 code tg, ISO 639-3 code tgk (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Tajik, tgk
Adjective
[edit]Tajik (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people or the Tajik language
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Usage notes
[edit]Refers to ethnicity, not nationality. Compare Tajikistani (“inhabitant of nation of Tajikistan; pertaining to Tajikistan”).
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