Kizilbashn.
/ˈkɪzɪlbɑːʃ/ (a) A Persianized Turk of Afghanistan. (b) A member of any of several cultural or religious minorities in Asian Turkey.
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1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan I. i. vi. 88 The Kizilbacs, or Noblemen, and great Families, in Persia value themselves mightily upon their being of Turcoman extraction.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. xii. 320 The Kuzzilbaushes are members of that colony of Toorks which now predominates in Persia. I call them by this name (which is usually given them at Caubul)... They speak Persian, and among themselves Toorkee.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 235/1 The Kizilbâshes may be regarded as modern Persians, but more strictly they are Persianised Turks.
1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. v. xv. 365 In Persia and Afghanistan the Turks, Kizilbashes, Usbeks, Turcomans, are even more sharply distinguished from the Persians.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 120/1 The Kizzilbashes of Kabul.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 121/2 Hosts of Tartar, and Afghan, Persian and Kizilbash.
1960 Guardian 28 June 8/5 Mingled with the Pathans of the south [of Afghanistan]..are..Turkomans, Kizilbashes, Kirghis.
1960 Spectator 2 Dec. 889/3 Religious sects living apart like the Kizil Bashis, Shiah, Tartars and Kára Papachs [in Turkey, c1912].
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