Uzbekize

English

Etymology

Uzbek +‎ -ize

Verb

Uzbekize (third-person singular simple present Uzbekizes, present participle Uzbekizing, simple past and past participle Uzbekized)

1. to make Uzbek.
   • 1952, John Stephen Reshetar, Michael M. Luther, Aspects of the Nationality Problem in USSR:

     The Central Asian Bureau of the Central Corzo, whee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Central Colomittee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, and the Centrol Executive Committee of Uzbekistan decided to Uzbekize the apparatus of these organizations 100 per cent by September 1, 1930.

   • 2007, Solomon I. Baevskii, Early Persian Lexicography: Farhangs of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries, Global Oriental (→ISBN), pgae xi

     The names of authors of works in Russian and Tajik as cited in the bibliographies show some spelling inconsistencies. This is because, during the Soviet period, Tajik names were usually Russianized (in some cases, additionally Uzbekized, mostly by the change of f to p);

   • 2015, Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

     The demand was based on the argument that Uzbek authorities were forcibly Uzbekizing the Tajik population of Uzbekistan.