Bashkir

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

noun

, plural Bash·kirs, (especially collectively) Bash·kir

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

/ bæʃˈkɪə /

noun

1. -kir-kirs 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

Example Sentences

The detachments are usually guarded by Kosaks of the Ural, and by a company of Bashkir militia.

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The atmosphere for half a hundred feet around a middle-aged Bashkir has no parallel in any sensation known to the human nostril.

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This little after-dinner speech was perhaps not quite in accordance with Bashkir etiquette, but it made a favourable impression.

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On his way he had been joined by large bodies of the Kirghis and Bashkir nomads.

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But the Bashkir looked at him with the same expression and without answering a word.

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