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Uzbek|ˈʊzbɛk, ˈʌz-| Also formerly Usbeck, Usbeg, Uzbeg, and other varr. [a. Russ.] One of a Turkic people of central Asia, forming the basic population of the Uzbek SSR (Uzbekistan), and also living in Afghanistan; the language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1616T. Roe Let. 17 Jan. in Embassy to Court of Gt. Mogul (1899) II. 113 The King..intendeth the conquest of the Vzbiques, a Nation between Smarchand and him. 1715J. Stevens Hist. Persia xxii. 221 To make war on the Usbecks. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. VI. lxiv. 292 A descendant of Zingis, who reigned over the Usbeks of Charasm, or Carizme. 1834A. Burnes Bokhara I. viii. 262 We now found ourselves among the Uzbeks. 1841J. Wood Personal Narr. Journey to River Oxus xiv. 215 Murad Beg, the head of this Uzbek state. 1876E. Schuyler Turkistan I. iii. 106 The Uzbeks are the descendants of the Turkish tribes who..migrated to this part of Asia [sc. Tashkent], both before and since the time of Tchinghiz Khan. 1889G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia vi. 153 The huge sheepskin bonnets..disappeared in favour of the capacious white turban of the Uzbeg or the Tajik. 1891A. Constable tr. Bernier's Trav. in Mogul Empire 120 There are probably no people more narrow⁓minded, sordid or uncleanly, that the Usbec Tartars. 1900‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe iii. 101 Uzbek also is not strictly a linguistic name, but political, and denotes the Turks who are, or were, the ruling faction in the Khanates of Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokand. 1927Glasgow Herald 15 Aug. 13 Agitation has been set on foot among the Uzbek people, on the southern banks of the Oxus, who now demand affiliation with their Soviet kinsmen across the river. 1929[see Jagatai]. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 68 The Turkish..family of languages..Turkish, Tartar, Kirgiz, Uzbeg, Azerbaijani. 1957H. Bower Short Guide Soviet Life 7 Constituent Republics (SSR) are with capitals in parenthesis..Turkmen SSR (Ashkhabad) Uzbek SSR (Tashkent) Tadzhik [etc.]. 1961[see Iranize vb. s.v. Iranian n. 2]. 1964G. Wheeler Mod. Hist. Soviet Central Asia ix. 212 Firqat (1858–1909)..did the first translation of a Russian classic—Tolstoy's What Men Live By—into Chagatay, or old Uzbek, as it is now called, in 1877. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. ii. 59 On the Volga Canal construction site newspapers were published in four national languages: Tatar, Turkish, Uzbek, and Kazakh. 1976Times 3 Nov. 16/5 A dark-haired agronomist from an Uzbek collective farm. |