Bashkir
noun
a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.
Bashkirs
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pluralof Bashkir.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
But the main check to negotiations was the action of the Bashkirs, who, finding that Traubenberg would not advance, left his camp in a body and set off for the Kalmuck halting-place.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
There are the Lithuanians and the Finns in the west and north-west, the Tartars and Bashkirs in the east, and the Kalmucks, a Mongol people, who live beyond the Volga.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by James Edward Parrott
For, no sooner did the Bashkirs find themselves too heavily pressed, and that the Kalmuck march had been retarded by some hours, than they retired into the boundless 10 deserts, where all pursuit was hopeless.
From De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars by William Edward Simonds
