Tajik

American

[tah-jik, -jeek, tuh-jik] / tɑˈdʒɪk, -ˈdʒik, tʌˈdʒɪk /

Or Tadjik,

noun

plural

Tajiks,

plural

Tajik

a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
Also Tajiki the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Tajik British

/ ˈtɑːdʒɪk, tɑːˈdʒiːk /

noun

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

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Unlike other Central Asian leaders, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, who has been in power since 1992, has criticised the Taliban and urged them to respect the rights of ethnic Tajiks in Afghanistan.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

Uzbek and Tajik men scrambled to finish construction on new stores, restaurants, and apartment buildings before winter set in.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

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

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024

But, then, Massoud was a Tajik, of course.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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