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Bashkir

American  
[bahsh-keer, bash-, buh-shkyeer] / bɑʃˈkɪər, bæʃ-, bʌˈʃkjir /

noun

Bashkirs, plural Bashkir plural
  1. a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.

  2. the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar.


Bashkir British  
/ bæʃˈkɪə /

noun

  1. a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic

  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

"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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Alsynov, the convicted activist, was a leader of a group that advocated the preservation of the Bashkir language and culture and protested against limestone and gold mining operations in the region.

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2024

Bashkir singer Altynai Valitov was visited by local authorities in Ufa after he put out a call on Instagram for protests to take place both in Bashkortostan and elsewhere in Russia.

From BBC Jan. 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

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

This Bashkir, however, was not in rags; he was elegantly attired.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various

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 Jókai, Mór

Abulghazi says the original inhabitants of Kipchak were the Urús, the Olaks, the Majars, and the Bashkirs.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

At this crisis, it is probable that envy and wounded pride, upon witnessing the splendid victories of Oubacha and Momotbacha over the 15 Turks and Bashkirs, contributed strength to the Russian irritation.

From De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars by Simonds, William Edward

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