Tajik

Or Ta·djik,

[tah-jik, -jeek, tuh-jik]

noun

plural

Tajiks ,

plural

Tajik .

1. a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.

2. Also Tajiki the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Tajik

/ ˈtɑːdʒɪk, tɑːˈdʒiːk /

noun

1. a member of a Persian-speaking Muslim people inhabiting Tajikistan and parts of Sinkiang in W China

Example Sentences

Earlier this year I even recommended it to a Tajik high official in Dushanbe as an important forthcoming work that might shed valuable new light on Afghanistan.

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So the team of Swiss, Japanese, Russian and Tajik scientists turned to the lower Kon Chukurbashi ice cap -- which ultimately proved to be very fruitful.

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Moscow has arrested a group of Tajiks over the attack, tightened its migration policies, upped police raids and pushed anti-migrant rhetoric.

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The scientists were scheduled to review their mission during a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on Monday.

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He studied Russian – even Tajik - wrote letters, read spy novels.

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