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Tajik
[tah-jik, -jeek, tuh-jik]
noun
plural
Tajiks ,plural
Tajik .a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
Also Tajiki the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Tajik
/ ˈtɑːdʒɪk, tɑːˈdʒiːk /
noun
a member of a Persian-speaking Muslim people inhabiting Tajikistan and parts of Sinkiang in W China
Example Sentences
The scientists were scheduled to review their mission during a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on Monday.
He studied Russian – even Tajik - wrote letters, read spy novels.
Even though he spent five years in Tajik prisons as a teenager, she said he never exhibited signs of violent extremism.
The suspects in the storming of a concert hall near Moscow last month were Tajiks.
Although four supposed culprits have been arrested, we will likely never know whether they were really the culprits or merely four hapless Tajik migrants conveniently picked up and tortured into confessions.
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