Bashkir

[ bahsh-keer, bash-; Russian buh-shkyeer ]

noun,plural Bash·kirs, (especially collectively) Bash·kir for 1.

a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.
the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar.

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How to use Bashkir in a sentence

The detachments are usually guarded by Kosaks of the Ural, and by a company of Bashkir militia.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848 | Various
The atmosphere for half a hundred feet around a middle-aged Bashkir has no parallel in any sensation known to the human nostril.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. December, 1877. | Various
This little after-dinner speech was perhaps not quite in accordance with Bashkir etiquette, but it made a favourable impression.
Russia | Donald Mackenzie Wallace
On his way he had been joined by large bodies of the Kirghis and Bashkir nomads.
Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) | Charles Morris
But the Bashkir looked at him with the same expression and without answering a word.
Marie | Alexander Pushkin

British Dictionary definitions for Bashkir

Bashkir

/ (bæʃˈkɪə) /

noun

plural -kir or -kirs a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic
the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

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