Bashkir

American  

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

noun

plural

Bashkirs,

plural

Bashkir

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.

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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

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Example Sentences

The protest, driven by tensions between indigenous Bashkir people and ethnic Russians, raised the specter of new cultural and nationalist divisions.

From Seattle Times

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

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

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

“The smartest, strongest Bashkir men are being put under fire,” Mr. Alsynov said on social media last year, a post that contributed to his arrest.

From New York Times