Uzbekistan

See also: Uzbekistán

English

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Turkic uz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [Term?] (/bek/, “master”). The suffix is known to be from Persian ستان‎ (stân, “stan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑːn/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Uzbekistan

2. A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan
   • 2013, Gore, Al, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 2012039890, OCLC 827202765, OL 25879719M, page 234:

     In Uzbekistan, forced sterilizations apparently began in 2004 and became official state policy in 2009.

Alternative forms

• Uzbekhistan

Derived terms

• Uzbekistani

Related terms

• Uzbek
• Uzbek SSR

Translations

Republic of Uzbekistan

• Afrikaans: Oesbekistan
• Albanian: Uzbekistani m, Uzbekistan m (indefinite)
• Alemannic German: Usbekistan
• Amharic: ኡዝቤኪስታን (ʾuzbekistan)
• Arabic: أُوزْبَكِسْتَان‎ f (ʾūzbakistān), أُوزْبَاكِسْتَان‎ f (ʾūzbākistān), أُزْبَكِسْتَان‎ f (ʾuzbakistān), أُزْبَاكِسْتَان‎ f (ʾuzbākistān)
• Aragonese: Usbekistán
• Armenian: Ուզբեկստան (Uzbekstan)
• Assamese: উজবেকিস্তান (uzbekistan)
• Asturian: Uzbequistán (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Özbəkistan (az)

  Cyrillic: Өзбәкистан

• Bashkir: Үзбәкстан (Üzbäkstan)
• Basque: Uzbekistan (eu)
• Belarusian: Узбекіста́н m (Uzbjekistán)
• Bengali: উজবেকিস্তান (bn) (ujbekiśtan)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: উজবেকিস্তান
• Breton: Ouzbekistan
• Bulgarian: Узбекиста́н (bg) m (Uzbekistán)
• Burmese: ဥဇဘက်ကစ္စတန် (u.ja.bhakkacca.tan)
• Catalan: Uzbekistan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Dungan: Узбекстан (Uzbi͡əkstan)

  Mandarin: 烏茲別克斯坦 (zh), 乌兹别克斯坦 (zh) (Wūzībiékèsītǎn), (short form) 烏茲別克 (zh), 乌兹别克 (zh) (Wūzībiékè)

• Chuvash: Узбекистан (Uzbek̬istan)
• Crimean Tatar: Özbekistan
• Czech: Uzbekistán (cs) m
• Danish: Usbekistan (da)
• Dhivehi: އުޒްބެކިސްތާން‎ (dv) (uzbekistān̊)
• Dutch: Oezbekistan (nl)
• Dzongkha: ཨུཛ་བེ་ཀིསི་ཏཱན་ (udz be kisi tān)
• Esperanto: Uzbekio, Uzbekistano
• Estonian: Usbekistan (et)
• Faroese: Usbekistan n
• Finnish: Uzbekistan (fi)
• French: Ouzbékistan (fr) m
• Galician: Usbequistán (gl)
• Georgian: უზბეკეთი (ka) (uzbeḳeti)
• German: Usbekistan (de) n
• Greek: Ουζμπεκιστάν (el) n (Ouzmpekistán)
• Hausa: Uzubekistan
• Hebrew: אוּזְבֶּקִיסְטָן‎ m (uzbekistan)
• Hindi: उज़्बेकिस्तान (hi) m (uzbekistān)
• Hungarian: Üzbegisztán (hu)
• Icelandic: Úsbekistan (is)
• Interlingua: Uzbekistan
• Irish: An Úisbéiceastáin f
• Italian: Uzbekistan (it) m
• Japanese: ウズベキスタン (ja) (Uzubekisutan)
• Kamba: Usimbekistani
• Kannada: ಉಜ್ಬೇಕಿಸ್ಥಾನ್ (kn) (ujbēkisthān)
• Karakalpak: Ózbekistan
• Kazakh: Өзбекстан (kk) (Özbekstan)
• Khmer: អ៊ូបេគីស្ថាន (ʼuubeekiisthaan)
• Korean: 우즈베키스탄 (ko) (Ujeubekiseutan), 우즈베끼스딴 (ko) (Ujeubekkiseuttan) (North Korea)
• Kumyk: Оьзбекистан (Özbekistan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Ûzbêkistan

• Kyrgyz: Өзбекстан (ky) (Özbekstan)
• Lao: ອຸສະເບັກກິດສະຖານ (lo) (ʼu sa bek kit sa thān)
• Latin: Usbecia f
• Latvian: Uzbekistāna (lv) f
• Limburgish: Oesbekistan

• Lithuanian: Uzbekija (lt) f
• Low German: Usbekistan
• Lower Sorbian: Usbekska
• Macedonian: Узбекиста́н m (Uzbekistán)
• Malayalam: ഉസ്ബെക്കിസ്ഥാന്‍ (usbekkisthān‍)
• Maltese: l-Użbekistan
• Manx: Oosbeckistaan
• Marathi: उझबेकिस्तान (ujhbekistān)
• Mazanderani: اوزبکستون‎
• Mingrelian: უზბეკეთი (uzbeḳeti)
• Nahuatl: Uzbectlālpan
• Navajo: Ózbeʼ bikéyah
• Norman: Uzbekistan m
• Northern Sami: Usbekistan
• Norwegian: Usbekistan (no)
• Occitan: Ozbequistan (oc)
• Ossetian: Узбекистан (Uzbekistan)
• Pashto: ازبکستان‎
• Persian: ازبکستان‎ (fa) (ozbakestân), اوزبکستان‎ (uzbakestân)
• Polish: Uzbekistan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Uzbequistão (pt) m, Usbequistão (pt) m
• Quechua: Usbiksuyu
• Romanian: Uzbekistan (ro) n
• Russian: Узбекиста́н (ru) m (Uzbekistán)
• Samogitian: Ozbėkistans
• Sanskrit: उजबेकिस्थान (ujabekisthāna)
• Scottish Gaelic: Usbagastàn
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Узбекистан m

  Roman: Uzbekistan (sh) m

• Shan: ဢူႇၸပႄႉၵိတ်ႇသတၼ်ႇ (ʼùu tsǎ pâ̰ae kìt sǎ tàn)
• Silesian: Ůzbekistan
• Sinhalese: උස්‍බෙකිස්‍තානය (usbekistānaya)
• Slovak: Uzbekistan (sk) m
• Slovene: Uzbekistan (sl) m
• Spanish: Uzbekistán (es) m
• Swahili: Uzibekistani (sw), Uzibeki
• Swedish: Uzbekistan (sv)
• Tagalog: Usbekistan
• Tajik: Ӯзбакистон (tg) (Üzbakiston)
• Tamil: உஸ்பெகிஸ்தான் (uspekistāṉ)
• Tatar: Үзбәкстан (Üzbäkstan)
• Telugu: ఉజ్బెకిస్తాన్ (te) (ujbekistān)
• Thai: อุซเบกิสถาน (th) (ús-bee-gís-tǎan)
• Tibetan: ཨུ་ཟ་བྷེ་ཁི་སི་ཐན (u za bhe khi si than)
• Turkish: Özbekistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Özbegistan (tk), Özbegystan

  Cyrillic: Өзбегистан

• Udmurt: Узбекистан (Uzbekistan)
• Ukrainian: Узбекиста́н (uk) m (Uzbekystán)
• Urdu: ازبکستان‎ m (uzbekistān)
• Uyghur: ئۆزبېكىستان‎ (özbëkistan)
• Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston (uz)

  Cyrillic: Ўзбекистон (Oʻzbekiston)

• Vietnamese: U-dơ-bê-ki-xtan
• Volapük: Lusbekän (vo)
• West Frisian: Oezbekistan
• Wolof: Usbekistaan
• Yakut: Узбекистан (Uzbekistan)
• Yiddish: אוזבעקיסטאַן‎ (uzbekistan)
• Yoruba: Nṣibẹkisitani
• Zazaki: Ozbekıstan

See also

• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• Countries of the world

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /uz.bə.kisˈtan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /uz.be.kisˈtan/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Uzbekistan m

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• uzbek

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuzbekistɑn/, [ˈuzbe̞ˌkis̠t̪ɑn]
• Rhymes: -istɑn
• Syllabification: Uz‧be‧kis‧tan

Proper noun

Uzbekistan

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Uzbekistan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Uzbekistan	—
genitive		Uzbekistanin	—
partitive		Uzbekistania	—
illative		Uzbekistaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Uzbekistan	—
accusative	nom.	Uzbekistan	—
	gen.	Uzbekistanin
genitive		Uzbekistanin	—
partitive		Uzbekistania	—
inessive		Uzbekistanissa	—
elative		Uzbekistanista	—
illative		Uzbekistaniin	—
adessive		Uzbekistanilla	—
ablative		Uzbekistanilta	—
allative		Uzbekistanille	—
essive		Uzbekistanina	—
translative		Uzbekistaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Uzbekistanitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Uzbekistan (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Uzbekistanini	Uzbekistanimme
2nd person	Uzbekistanisi	Uzbekistaninne
3rd person	Uzbekistaninsa

Derived terms

• uzbekistanilainen

Related terms

• uzbekki

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈzbɛ.ki.stan/, (traditional) /u.zbe.kiˈstan/
• Rhymes: -ɛkistan, (traditional) -an

Proper noun

Uzbekistan m

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

Derived terms

• uzbeco

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uz.bɛˈkis.tan/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -istan
• Syllabification: Uz‧be‧kis‧tan

Proper noun

Uzbekistan m

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Uzbekistan

	singular
nominative	Uzbekistan
genitive	Uzbekistanu
dative	Uzbekistanowi
accusative	Uzbekistan
instrumental	Uzbekistanem
locative	Uzbekistanie
vocative	Uzbekistanie

Derived terms

nouns

• Uzbeczka
• Uzbejka
• Uzbek

 

adjective

• uzbecki

 

Further reading

• Uzbekistan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Uzbekistan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Uzbekistan m (Cyrillic spelling Узбекистан)

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuzbɛkistan/

Proper noun

Uzbekistan m (genitive Uzbekistanu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Uzbekistan

	singulare tantum
nominative	Uzbekistan
genitive	Uzbekistanu
dative	Uzbekistanu
accusative	Uzbekistan
locative	Uzbekistane
instrumental	Uzbekistanom

Derived terms

• Uzbek m, Uzbečka f
• uzbecký (adj)
• uzbecky (adverb)
• uzbečtina

Further reading

• Uzbekistan in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swedish

Proper noun

Uzbekistan n (genitive Uzbekistans)

1. Uzbekistan (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• uzbek
• uzbekisk
• uzbekiska