Tajik

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Etymology

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From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, non-Turk (of Central Asia)) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, Arab), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, name of an Arab clan). See Tayy.

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

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Noun

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Tajik (plural Tajiks)

  1. A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.
    • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 48:
      “True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”

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Proper noun

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Tajik

  1. The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan.

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Adjective

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Tajik (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.

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Usage notes

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Refers to ethnicity, not nationality. Compare Tajikistani (inhabitant of nation of Tajikistan; pertaining to Tajikistan).

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