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Azeri

British  
/ əˈzɛərɪ /

noun

  1. short for Azerbaijani

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Khamenei was Azeri and President Masoud Pezeshkian is of mixed Azeri and Kurdish origin.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

Patriotic Iranian hero Babak Khorramdin, who led a nationalist movement against Arab settler colonialists in the ninth century, hailed from the Azeri city of Ardabil.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

"And while it is not reliant on Azeri gas, it would like to have more gas from Azerbaijan to ultimately reduce its dependence on Russia."

From BBC Jul. 26, 2025

Soldiers speaking in the local Azeri language said: “There it is, we found it.”

From Seattle Times May 19, 2024

I already had the Persian, but the Azeri was new, so I put it happily into the second edition of my book.

From Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible by Ilona, Martinovitsné Kutas

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