Tajik
Americannoun
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a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
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Also Tajiki the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
noun
Example Sentences
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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
"The police check your documents everywhere," said Azimdjon Badalov, a Tajik who had worked in Russia for 10 years.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
He studied Russian – even Tajik - wrote letters, read spy novels.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024
The kebab man, a Tajik, had taken offense and demanded a retraction.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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