تاجیک

Persian

Alternative forms

• تاجک (tâjek)

Etymology

Possibly related to تازیک (tâzik), a re-borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Turkic.

According to W. Henning, from *Tāt-čīk, originally *Tād-čīk.

Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.

See Fragner for more discussion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒːˈdʒiːkʲ]

Noun

Dari	تاجک
Iranian Persian	تاجیک
Tajik	тоҷик

تاجیک • (Tâjik) (plural تاجیک‌ها (Tâjik-hâ) or تاجیکان (Tâjikân))

1. non-Turk
2. Tajik

   تاجیک‌ها قومی آریایی هستند.

   Tâjik-hâ qowmi âryâyi hastand.

   The Tajiks are an Aryan people.

Inflection

Basic forms of تاجیک (Tâjik)
	singular	plural
bare	تاجیک (Tâjik)	تاجیک‌ها (Tâjik-hấ) تاجیکا △ (Tâjikấ)
definitive direct object	تاجیک را (Tâjik râ) تاجیک رو △ (Tâjiko)	تاجیک‌ها را (Tâjik-hấ râ) تاجیکا رو △ (Tâjikấ ro)
ezâfe	تاجیک (Tâjik-e)	تاجیک‌های (Tâjik-hấ-ye) تاجیکای △ (Tâjikấ-ye)
marked indefinite or relative definite	تاجیکی (Tâjik-i)	تاجیک‌هایی (Tâjikấn-i, Tâjik-hấ-i) تاجیکایی △ (Tâjikấi)
△ Colloquial.

Predicative forms of تاجیک (Tâjík)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	تاجیکم (Tâjíkam)	تاجیکیم (Tâjíkim)
2nd person (“you are”)	تاجیکی (Tâjíki)	تاجیکید (Tâjíkid) تاجیکین △ (Tâjíkin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	تاجیک است (Tâjík ast) تاجیکه △ (Tâjíke)	تاجیکند (Tâjíkand) تاجیکن △ (Tâjíkan)
△ Colloquial.

Related terms

• تازیک (tâzik), تازک (tâzek)
• تاژیک (tâžik), تاژک (tâžek)
• تات (tât)

Derived terms

• تاجیکی (Tâjiki)
• تاجیکستان (Tâjikestân)
• فارسی تاجیکی (Fârsi-ye Tâjiki)

References

• B.G. Franger (2000), "Tādjīk", Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. X, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 62–64