Bashkir
Americannoun
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Bashkirs,
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Bashkir
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a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.
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the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic
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the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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The protest, driven by tensions between indigenous Bashkir people and ethnic Russians, raised the specter of new cultural and nationalist divisions.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Mr. Alsynov had called for greater cultural and economic autonomy for the predominantly Muslim Bashkir people of Russia’s Ural Mountains.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
But he insists the words he used in the Bashkir language mean "poor people" and were mistranslated into Russian.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
The 28,000 Russian, Bashkir, and Tatar farmers living on the river—drinking, cooking, and bathing with river water—had no idea.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2013
I turned round, and saw a Cossack coming up from the fort, leading a Bashkir horse, and making signs to me from afar to wait for him.
From The Daughter of the Commandant by Mary Pamela Milne-Home
Indigenous people, mostly Muslim Bashkirs, a Turkic ethnic group, make up just under a third of the region’s population.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Alsynov was a leader of Bashkort, a grassroots movement set up to preserve the ethnic identity of the Bashkirs which was banned as extremist in 2020.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
Bashkirs with bow and arrow, Bedouins in white cloaks with brass-hilted swords.
From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai
These are surrounded on the south by the Tatars of Orenburg and the Bashkirs; on the north by the Samoyedes, and on the east by Voguls, who pressed on them from the Ural.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
He was to be met on his route by ten thousand Bashkirs and as many Kirghises, implacable enemies of the Kalmucks, from whom they had suffered in past years.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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