Hazara
Americannoun
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Hazara,
plural
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Hazaras
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Hazara
From Persian hazār “a thousand, a military unit of a thousand soldiers,” from Middle Persian
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Shia Muslims, primarily from the Hazara ethnic group, are a minority in Afghanistan they have been targeted in the past.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
The city grabbed international attention in 2001, when the Sunni Pashtun Taliban authorities destroyed two large Buddha statues cherished by the predominantly Shia Hazara community in the region.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
For example, I advocate on behalf of a group of Hazara women who previously worked in the security sector.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2023
The Hazara Express was on its way from Karachi to Rawalpindi when 10 cars derailed near the Sarhari railway station off Nawabshah, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
She was a fair, blue-eyed Hazara woman from Bamiyan and she sang you old wedding songs.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
For Hazaras, Pakistan has not always felt like the safer alternative to its neighbour, but when the Taliban retook power many joined huge numbers of Afghans who fled over the border.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
The education center targeted Friday is in the Kabul neighborhood of Dashti Barchi, where many of the residents are Hazaras.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
But few Hazaras expect the Taliban to find the perpetrators, or to stop more attacks.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
The school was in a community dense with Hazaras, a Shiite minority, and the next day the bodies were brought up a steep hill at the foot of a mountain range.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
They were rumored later to have been fired by the Hazaras of Wahdat.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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