Tajik

American  

[tah-jik, -jeek, tuh-jik] / tɑˈdʒɪk, -ˈdʒik, tʌˈdʒɪk /

Or Tadjik,

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.

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Tajik British  

/ ˈtɑːdʒɪk, tɑːˈdʒiːk /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Uzbek and Tajik men scrambled to finish construction on new stores, restaurants, and apartment buildings before winter set in.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

Earlier this year I even recommended it to a Tajik high official in Dushanbe as an important forthcoming work that might shed valuable new light on Afghanistan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

"Our ice is much colder and probably older than Grigoriev, which gives us hope," said Miles, back in the Tajik capital Dushanbe in October.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

The combination of poverty, authoritarian rule and lack of religious freedom has created a fertile environment for a calculated online recruitment campaign targeting Tajik men.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

The valley Mammy referred to was the Panjshir, the Farsi-speaking Tajik region one hundred kilometers northeast of Kabul.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini