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• Azerbaijani
  Azerbaijani

  adjective

  of, relating to, or characteristic of Azerbaijan or its people.
• azerbaijani
  azerbaijani

  noun

  a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani

American  

[ah-zer-bahy-jah-nee, az-er-bahy-jan-ee] / ˌɑ zər baɪˈdʒɑ ni, ˌæz ər baɪˈdʒæn i /

Also Azerbaijanian

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Azerbaijan or its people.

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noun

• Azerbaijanis,
  plural
• Azerbaijani
  plural

1. a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan.

2. the Turkic language of the Azerbaijani, written with Cyrillic letters in Azerbaijan and with Arabic letters in Iran.

3. a member of an Azerbaijani-speaking people of Azerbaijan or the Azerbaijan provinces in Iran.

azerbaijani British  

/ ˌæzəbaɪˈdʒɑːnɪ /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: Azeri.  a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Azerbaijani
  plural
• Azerbaijanis
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Azerbaijani

First recorded in 1885–90; Azerbaijan + -i suffix of membership

Example Sentences

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Azerbaijani Azerbaijanis

The DJ put on an Azerbaijani song, playing to the crowd from northwest Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

In 2024, Cuellar was indicted for allegedly accepting $600,000 in bribes from a government-owned Azerbaijani oil and gas company as well as a bank headquartered in Mexico City.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Azerbaijani singer Jiva fought against restraints as she sang Just Go, a furious exorcism of a toxic relationship.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Earlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke by phone and discussed revitalising bilateral relations and prospects for cooperation, Aliyev's office said in a readout.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

In a different tale, the khan has an odyssey in the Azerbaijani hill country.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Authorities said Ryan recruited Mamedli and arranged for him to meet French intelligence agents, who allegedly tasked him with recruiting Azerbaijanis and Russians at a Moscow university where he studied.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

Some of Iran's shahs across the centuries were ethnic Azerbaijanis as well.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Azerbaijanis call it Nagorno-Karabakh; Armenians call it Artsakh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

Valiyev is among the estimated 700,000 Azerbaijanis who fled or were forced out of the region they call Karabakh amid violence that flared beginning in 1988 and then grew into an outright war.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

Even the compact two millions and a half of Turkish-speaking Azerbaijanis will write letters only in Persian, and will not read a Turkish newspaper.

From Turkey: a Past and a Future by Arnold Joseph Toynbee