Tajik

Or Ta·djik,

[tah-jik, -jeek, tuh-jik]

noun

plural

Tajiks ,

plural

Tajik .

1. a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.

2. 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

1. a member of a Persian-speaking Muslim people inhabiting Tajikistan and parts of Sinkiang in W China

Example Sentences

Moscow has arrested a group of Tajiks over the attack, tightened its migration policies, upped police raids and pushed anti-migrant rhetoric.

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The scientists were scheduled to review their mission during a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on Monday.

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He studied Russian – even Tajik - wrote letters, read spy novels.

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Even though he spent five years in Tajik prisons as a teenager, she said he never exhibited signs of violent extremism.

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The suspects in the storming of a concert hall near Moscow last month were Tajiks.

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