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Bashkir

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

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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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

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

The old Bashkir remained silent, and looked at the Commandant with a look of complete idiocy.

From The Daughter of the Commandant by Milne-Home, Mary Pamela

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