Tashkent

English

Alternative forms

• Tashkand
• Tashkend (obsolete)

Etymology

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Chagatai تاش (taš)

Chagatai کند (känd)

Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd)

Uzbek Toshkentbor.

Russian Ташкент (Taškent)bor.

English Tashkent

Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), borrowed from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), from تاش (taš, “stone”) + کند (känd, “city”).

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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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.

   1. (metonymic) The Uzbekistan government.
4. A region of Uzbekistan
6. A district of Uzbekistan

Usage notes

• From 1918 to 1924, the capital of Turkestan ASSR; from 1930 to 1991, the capital of Uzbek SSR, and since 1991, the capital of the 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)
• Asturian: Taxkent (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Daşkənd (az)

  Cyrillic: Дашкәнд

• Bashkir: Ташкент (Taşkent)
• Belarusian: Ташке́нт m (Taškjént)
• Bengali: তাশখন্দ (bn) (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 Greek: 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 (tas ken)
• Latin: Taskentum n
• Latvian: Taškenta f
• Lithuanian: Taškentas m
• Macedonian: Ташкент m (Taškent)
• Malay: Tashkent
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡧᡳᡤᠠᠨ (tašigan), ᡨᠠᠰᡳᡤᠠᠨ (tasigan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ташкент (Taškent)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tasjkent

  Nynorsk: Tasjkent

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

  Cyrillic: Та̀шкент m

  Latin: Tàškent (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ටෂ්කන්ට් (ṭaṣkanṭ)
• Slovak: Taškent (sk) m
• Slovene: Taškent m
• Spanish: Taskent
• 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)