Uzbek

[ooz-bek, uhz-, ooz-bek]

noun

plural

Uzbeks ,

plural

Uzbek .

1. a member of a town-dwelling Turkic people of Turkestan and Uzbekistan.

2. the Turkic language of the Uzbeks.

Uzbek

/ ˈʌz-, ˈʊzbɛk /

noun

1. a member of a Mongoloid people of Uzbekistan

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

Example Sentences

A German teacher stands in front of Uzbek nursing students, rattling off health terms -- wheelchair, overweight, retired -- they will need to master before setting off for new jobs in Germany.

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The Uzbek despot distinguished himself by “boiling his enemies, slaughtering his poverty-stricken people when they protest, and conscripting armies of children for slave labour,” according to The Guardian.

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He's performing traditional Uzbek melodies to a modern beat and playing a doira, the ancient drum of Central Asia.

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"They were strangers, I can't identify their identity or language, but they seemed to be Uzbek or Chechen," Mr Fares told me by phone.

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While it would be romantic to say Khusanov is forging a path for more Uzbeks to play in Europe's top leagues, that process has been long under way in the former Soviet state.

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