Uzbek

[ ooz-bek, uhz-, ooz-bek ]

noun,plural Uz·beks, (especially collectively) Uz·bek.
  1. a member of a town-dwelling Turkic people of Turkestan and Uzbekistan.

  2. the Turkic language of the Uzbeks.

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Uzbek

/ (ˈʊzbɛk, ˈʌz-) /


noun
  1. plural -beks or -bek a member of a Mongoloid people of Uzbekistan

  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

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