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
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Tajik coach Saidakbar Eshonov said he wanted to "take skiing in Tajikistan to a high level, like wrestling".
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
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 combination of poverty, authoritarian rule and lack of religious freedom has created a fertile environment for a calculated online recruitment campaign targeting Tajik men.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
The valley Mammy referred to was the Panjshir, the Farsi-speaking Tajik region one hundred kilometers northeast of Kabul.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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