Tashkent

English

Alternative forms

• Tashkand

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), compound of tosh (“stone”) + Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city”) (compare Turkish kent), the latter borrowed from Sogdian [Term?] (/⁠kand⁠/, “city”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/, /ˌtæʃˈkɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Proper noun

Tashkent

2. The capital city of Uzbekistan.

   Synonym: (former name) Chach

   • 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission‎^[1], →OCLC, →OL, page 103:

     The Uzbek opera house and the Uzbek dramatic theater, both in Tashkent, are of recent origin and arose under Soviet influence.

Usage notes

From 1918-1924, capital of Turkestan ASSR; since 1930, capital of Uzbek SSR, which in 1991 became Republic of Uzbekistan.

Derived terms

• Tashkenter
• Tashkenti

 

Translations

capital of Uzbekistan

• Albanian: Tashkent m, Tashkenti m (definite)
• Amharic: ታሽኬንት (taškent)
• Arabic: طَشْقَنْد f (ṭašqand), تَشْكَنْدْ f (taškand), طَشْكَنْد f (ṭaškand), طَاشْكَنْدْ f (ṭāškand)
• Armenian: Տաշքենդ (Taškʻend)
• Azerbaijani: Daşkənd (az)

  Cyrillic: Дашкәнд

• Bashkir: Ташкент (Taşkent)
• Belarusian: Ташке́нт m (Taškjént)
• Bengali: তাশখন্দ (taśokhondo)
• Bulgarian: Ташке́нт m (Tašként)
• Burmese: တရှကင့်မြို့ (ta.hra.kang.mrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 塔什干 (taap³ sap⁶ gon¹)

  Mandarin: 塔什干 (zh) (Tǎshígān)

• Czech: Taškent (cs) m
• Danish: Tasjkent n
• Dutch: Tasjkent n
• Esperanto: Taŝkento (eo)
• Estonian: Toshkent (et), Taškent
• Finnish: Taškent (fi)
• French: Tachkent (fr)
• Georgian: ტაშკენტი (ka) (ṭašḳenṭi)
• German: Taschkent (de) n
• Greek: Τασκένδη (el) (Taskéndi)

  Ancient: Τσατσηνή (Tsatsēnḗ)

• Hebrew: טַשְׁקֶנְט f (tashkent)
• Hindi: ताशकंद m (tāśkand), ताशकेंत m (tāśkẽt), ताशक़ंद m (tāśqand)
• Hungarian: Taskent (hu)
• Icelandic: Taskent
• Indonesian: Tashkent
• Irish: Taiscint f, Tashkent
• Italian: Tashkent
• Japanese: タシケント (ja) (Tashikento)
• Kazakh: Ташкент (Taşkent)
• Khmer: តាស្កិន (km) (taaskən)
• Korean: 타슈켄트 (ko) (Tasyukenteu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Taşkent (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Ташкен (ky) (Taşken)
• Lao: ຕັສ​ເກັນ (tat ken)
• Latin: Taskentum n
• Latvian: Taškenta f
• Lithuanian: Taškentas m
• Macedonian: Ташкент m (Taškent)
• Malay: Tashkent
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡧᡳᡤᠠᠨ (tašigan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ташкент (Taškent)

• Navajo: Tʼashkʼen
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tasjkent

  Nynorsk: Tasjkent

• Pashto: تاشکند m (tāškand)
• Persian: تاشکند (tâškand), تاشکنت (tâškant), چاچ (fa) (čâč), شاش (fa) (šâš)
• Polish: Taszkent (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tashkent (pt) f, Tasquente f
• Romanian: Tașkent
• Russian: Ташке́нт (ru) m (Tašként)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Та̀шкент m

  Roman: Tàškent (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ටෂ්කන්ට් (ṭaṣkanṭ)
• Slovak: Taškent (sk) m
• Slovene: Taškent m
• Swedish: Tasjkent (sv) n
• Tajik: Тошканд (tg) (Toškand)
• Tamil: தாஷ்கந்து (tāṣkantu)
• Tatar: Ташкәнт (Taşkänt)
• Thai: ทาชเคนต์ (táach-kén)
• Tibetan: ཐ་ཧྲི་ཀན (tha hri kan)
• Turkish: Taşkent (tr)
• Turkmen: Daşkent

  Cyrillic: Дашкент

• Ukrainian: Ташке́нт (uk) m (Tašként)
• Urdu: تاشقند m (tāśqand)
• Uyghur: تاشكەنت (tashkent)
• Uzbek: Toshkent

  Cyrillic: Тошкент (Toshkent)

• Vietnamese: Ta-xken
• Written Oirat: ᡐᠠᠱᡍᡄᠨ (tašken)
• Yiddish: טאַשקענט n (tashkent)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Tasquente

Proper noun

Tashkent f

1. Tashkent (the capital city of Uzbekistan)