Bashkir
Americannoun
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Bashkirs,
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Bashkir
plural
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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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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
Alsynov was a leader of a group that advocated for preserving the Bashkir language and culture, and protested limestone and gold mining operations in the region.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 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
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
Circassian noblemen in complete mail, and wild Bashkirs with bows and arrows, were there.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
But at length, concentrating their strength, they forced the Bashkirs to retreat.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
We find Bashkirs, or something equally different instead.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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