a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan.
the Turkic language of the Azerbaijani, written with Cyrillic letters in Azerbaijan and with Arabic letters in Iran.
a member of an Azerbaijani-speaking people of Azerbaijan or the Azerbaijan provinces in Iran.
Sometimes shortened to: Azeri. a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan
the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
First recorded in 1885–90; Azerbaijan + -i suffix of membership
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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
That matches the rating for Ukraine and western Russia, where in late 2024 an Azerbaijani passenger plane was accidentally shot out of the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 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
Azerbaijanis call it Nagorno-Karabakh; Armenians call it Artsakh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
But exactly who owns the ship is not clear from the papers provided by the crew, made up of Mr Kumar, five other Indian nationals, as well as two Azerbaijanis and six Egyptians.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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 Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
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