Tajik

English

Alternative forms

• Tadjik
• Tadzhik (via Russian, obsolete)
• Taujik (obsolete)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/, /tæˈd͡ʒiːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

Tajik (plural Tajiks)

1. A member of the Persian-speaking people living mainly in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
   • 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.”

Usage notes

Refers to ethnicity, not nationality. Compare Tajikistani (“native or inhabitant of Tajikistan”).

Translations

Tajik person

• Afrikaans: Tadjik, Tadjikistanner
• Albanian: taxhik m
• Arabic: طَاجِيكِيّ m (ṭājīkiyy), طَاجِيكِيَّة f (ṭājīkiyya)
• Armenian: տաջիկ (taǰik)
• Azerbaijani: tacik
• Belarusian: таджы́к m (tadžýk), таджы́чка f (tadžýčka)
• Bengali: তাজিক (tajik)
• Bulgarian: таджи́к m (tadžík)
• Catalan: tadjik m or f
• Chinese:

  Dungan: таҗик (tažik)

  Mandarin: 塔吉克人 (zh) (tǎjíkèrén)

• Crimean Tatar: tacik
• Czech: Tádžik (cs) m, Tádžička (cs) f
• Danish: tadsjiker c
• Dutch: Tadzjiek (nl) m, Tadzjiekse (nl) f
• Esperanto: taĝiko
• Estonian: tadžikk
• Finnish: tadžikki (fi)
• French: Tadjik (fr) m, Tadjike (fr) f
• Georgian: ტაჯიკი (ṭaǯiḳi)
• German: Tadschike (de) m, Tadschikin (de) f
• Hindi: ताजिक (hi) m or f (tājik)
• Hungarian: tádzsik (hu)
• Irish: Táidsíceastánach m
• Italian: tagiko m, tagika f
• Japanese: タジク人 (ja) (tajikujin)
• Kazakh: тәжік (täjık)
• Korean: 타지크 사람 (tajikeu saram), 타지크인 (tajikeu'in)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاجیک (tacîk)

  Northern Kurdish: tacik (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тажик (ky) (tajik)
• Latvian: tadžiks m, tadžikiete f
• Lithuanian: tadžikas (lt) m, tadžikė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Таџик m (Tadžik)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тажик хүн (tažik xün)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tadsjiker m

  Nynorsk: tadsjikar (nn) m

• Ossetian: таджикаг (taǵikag)
• Pashto: تاجک (ps) m (tājək)
• Persian:

  Dari: تَاجِک (tājik), تَاجِیک (fa) (tājīk)

  Iranian Persian: تاجیک (fa) (tâjik)

• Polish: Tadżyk (pl) m, Tadżyjka (pl) f, Tadżyczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tadjique (pt)
• Romanian: tadjic (ro) m, tadjică (ro) f
• Russian: таджи́к (ru) m (tadžík), таджи́чка (ru) f (tadžíčka)
• Sarikoli: Tujik, Tujiki
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Таџик m, Таџикиња f, Таџикистанац m, Таџикистанка f

  Latin: Tadžik (sh) m, Tadžikinja f, Tadžikistanac m, Tadžikistanka f

• Slovak: Tadžik m, Tadžička f
• Slovene: Tadžik m
• Spanish: tayiko (es) m
• Swedish: tadzjik (sv) c
• Tajik: тоҷик (tg) (tojik)
• Tatar: таҗик (tt) (tacik)
• Turkish: Tacik (tr), Tacikistanlı

  Ottoman Turkish: تاجیك (tâcik)

• Turkmen: täjik
• Ukrainian: таджи́к (uk) m (tadžýk), таджи́чка f (tadžýčka)
• Urdu: تاجِک (tājik)
• Uyghur: تاجىك (tajik)
• Uzbek: tojik (uz)
• Vietnamese: người Tát-gích
• Xibe: ᡨᠠᡪᡞᡣ
  ᠨᡞᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ (tajik niyalma)

Adjective

Tajik (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Tajiks.

   Synonym: Tajiki

   • 2016 September 25, “Xinjiang – is this really China?”, in CNN‎^[1], page 2:

     A yurt houses a Tajik family along the Karakal Lake.

2. Of or relating to Tajiki Persian.

   Synonym: Tajiki

Usage notes

The first sense refers to ethnicity, not nationality. Compare Tajikistani (“of or relating to Tajikistan”).

Derived terms

• Tajikness
• Tajik Persian
• Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County

Translations

of or pertaining to Tajiks or to Tajiki Persian

• Afrikaans: Tadjiks (af), Tadjikistans
• Albanian: taxhik
• Arabic: طَاجِيكِيّ (ṭājīkiyy)
• Armenian: տաջիկական (hy) (taǰikakan)
• Azerbaijani: tacik
• Belarusian: таджы́кскі (tadžýkski), таджы́цкі (tadžýcki)
• Bengali: তাজিক (tajik)
• Bulgarian: таджи́кски (tadžíkski)
• Catalan: tadjik m or f
• Chinese:

  Dungan: таҗик (tažik)

  Mandarin: 塔吉克的 (zh) (Tǎjíkè de)

• Crimean Tatar: tacik
• Czech: tádžický (cs)
• Danish: tadsjikisk
• Dutch: Tadzjieks (nl)
• Esperanto: taĝika (eo)
• Estonian: tadžiki
• Finnish: tadžikkilainen
• French: tadjik (fr)
• Georgian: ტაჯიკური (ṭaǯiḳuri)
• German: tadschikisch (de)
• Greek: τατζίκ (el) (tatzík)
• Hebrew: טג׳יקי (tajikí)
• Hindi: ताजिकी (tājikī), ताजिक (hi) (tājik)
• Hungarian: tádzsik (hu)
• Irish: Táidsíceastánach
• Italian: tagiko
• Japanese: タジク (tajiku)
• Kazakh: тәжік (täjık)
• Khmer: តាជីក (taaciik)
• Korean: 타지크 (tajikeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tacîkî

• Kyrgyz: тажик (ky) (tajik)
• Latvian: tadžiku, tadžikisks
• Lithuanian: tadžikiškas, tadžikų (lt)
• Macedonian: таџички (tadžički)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тажик (tažik)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tadsjikisk (no)

  Nynorsk: tadsjikisk (nn)

• Pashto: تاجکي (ps) (tājǝkí)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تاجیک (fa) (tâjik), تاجیکی (fa) (tâjiki)

• Polish: tadżycki (pl)
• Portuguese: tadjique (pt)
• Romanian: tadjic (ro)
• Russian: таджи́кский (ru) (tadžíkskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: таџикистански m, таџички m

  Latin: tadžikistanski (sh) m, tadžički (sh) m

• Slovak: tadžický
• Spanish: tayiko (es)
• Tajik: тоҷикӣ (tg) (tojiki)
• Tatar: таҗик (tt) (tacik)
• Thai: ทาจิก, ทาจิกิสถาน (th) (taa-jì-gís-tǎan) (of Tajikistan)
• Turkish: Tacik (tr)
• Turkmen: täjik
• Ukrainian: таджи́цький (tadžýcʹkyj)
• Urdu: تاجِک (tājik)
• Uyghur: تاجىك (tajik)
• Uzbek: tojik (uz)
• Vietnamese: Tát-gích

Proper noun

Tajik

1. The Persian dialect spoken by Tajiks in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

   Synonyms: Tajiki, Tajiki Persian, Tajik Persian

Usage notes

The Tajiks of Afghanistan speak Dari Persian.

Translations

dialect of Persian

• Afrikaans: Tadjiks (af)
• Arabic: طَاجِيكِيّ m (ṭājīkiyy)
• Armenian: տաջիկերեն (hy) (taǰikeren)
• Asturian: taxiquistanín (ast), taxicu (ast)
• Bengali: তাজিক ভাষা (tajik bhaśa)
• Breton: tadjikeg
• Bulgarian: таджи́кски m (tadžíkski)
• Catalan: tadjik m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔吉克語 / 塔吉克语 (zh) (tǎjíkèyǔ)

• Danish: tadsjikisk c
• Dutch: Tadzjieks (nl) n
• Esperanto: Taĝika lingvo
• Estonian: tadžiki keel
• Finnish: tadžikki (fi), tadžikin kieli
• French: tadjik (fr) m
• Georgian: ტაჯიკური ენა (ṭaǯiḳuri ena)
• German: Tadschikisch (de) n
• Hungarian: tádzsik (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa Tajik
• Irish: Taidsícis f
• Italian: tagico (it) m
• Japanese: タジク語 (ja) (tajikugo)
• Khmer: ភាសាតាជីក (phiəsaataaciik)
• Korean: 타지크어 (ko) (tajikeueo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

• Kyrgyz: тажикче (tajikce)
• Latvian: tadžiku valoda f, tadžiku
• Lithuanian: tadžikų kalba (lt) f
• Navajo: Tʼajiʼ bizaad
• Norwegian: tadsjikisk språk

  Bokmål: tadsjikisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: tadsjikisk (nn) m

• Ossetian: таджикаг (taǵikag)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: زَبانِ تاجیکی (zabân-e tâjiki), تاجیکی (fa) (tâjiki), فارْسیِ تاجیکی (fârsi-ye tâjiki)

• Polish: tadżycki (pl) m
• Portuguese: tadjique (pt)
• Romanian: tadjică (ro) f
• Russian: таджи́кский (ru) m (tadžíkskij) (язы́к)
• Sarikoli: Tujiki ziv
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: таџички m

  Latin: tadžički (sh) m

• Shughni: Тоҷик зив (Tōǰik ziv), Тоҷики зив (Tōǰiki ziv)
• Spanish: tayiko (es) m
• Swahili: Kitajiki
• Swedish: tadzjikiska (sv)
• Tajik: тоҷикӣ (tg) (tojiki), забони тоҷикӣ (tg) (zabon-i tojiki)
• Thai: ภาษาทาจิก
• Turkish: Tacikçe (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: تاجیكجە (tacikçe), لیسان تاجیكی (lisân-ı tâcikî)

• Xibe: ᡨᠠᡪᡞᡣ
  ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ (tajik gisun)
• Yaghnobi: тоҷикӣ зивок (tojiki zivok)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tajik terms
• Appendix:Tajik Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Tajik
• Wikipedia article on Tajiki Persian

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code tg, ISO 639-3 code tgk (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Tajik, tgk ⁠

Anagrams

• Kitja