Tajik

American  

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

Or Tadjik,

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.

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Tajik British  

/ ˈtɑːdʒɪk, tɑːˈdʒiːk /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

Even though he spent five years in Tajik prisons as a teenager, she said he never exhibited signs of violent extremism.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

And, of course, there was Mammy’s hero, Rabbani’s ally, the brooding, charismatic Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini