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Tajik, n. and a.|tɑːˈdʒiːk|
Also Tadjik, Tadzhik, etc.
[a. Pers. tājik one who is neither an Arab nor a Turk, a Persian.]
A. n.
a. A people of Iranian descent inhabiting Afghanistan and the Turkistan region of Central Asia; now also spec. a native or inhabitant of the Tajik S.S.R.
b. The Persian dialect spoken by this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people.
1815[see Hindki]. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 71/2 The Tadjicks consider themselves as the aborigines of the country [sc. Bokhara], and as the descendants of the ancient Sogdi and Bactrians. 1871, etc. [see Sart n.2 and a.]. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 365/1 The Tajik population of the richly-cultivated districts north of Kabul. 1920Christian World 26 Aug. 9/2 The fanatical Tadjiks and Sarts of that portion of Turkestan. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. x. 152, I had no sooner got to sleep than they dug me in the ribs and introduced themselves as Tajiks. 1953O. Caroe Soviet Empire iii. 33 With sedentary and town populations speaking Tajik it can as safely be accepted that they are of Iranian stock-origin. 1959E. H. Carr Socialism in One Country II. xx. 268 The Tajik population, the only non-Turki-speaking group in the area. 1964H. H. Paper tr. Shafeev's Short Gram. Outl. Pashto 1 Until 1936 the official language of Afghanistan was Kabuli, one of the dialects of Tajik. 1970Times 24 Mar. 7/1 The least emancipated women seem to be found among the Tadjiks, an Iranian people living in the wild mountainous regions at the Soviet Union's extreme south-eastern tip. 1974Listener 17 Oct. 494/2 Travelling through the Hindu Kush..with three Tajik tribesmen. 1977Yin Ming United & Equal 4 There is hardly any place along China's long border without its communities of minority nationalities. Among them are..the Kazakhs, Uighurs, Khalkhas and Tajiks in Sin Kiang. 1978Times 18 Oct. 16/8 [In] Uzbekistan..many..speak Tadzhik..and other Asian languages. 1979A. Henning tr. Myrdal's Silk Road i. 5 Our hosts..are Tadzhiks... This is the Tashkurghan Tadzhik Autonomous County in the far west of China. Ibid. 8 We are sitting on the starkly beautiful, thick, Tadzhik carpet of felted wool. 1980G. Richards Red Kill xxv. 204 Children had come from all corners of the Soviet Union... Azerbaijanis, Tadjiks, Ukrainians. |