a member of a people who under Genghis Khan established a vast and powerful state in central Asia from the 13th century until conquered by Russia in 1552
b.
a descendant of this people, now scattered throughout Russia but living chiefly in the Tatar Republic
2.
any of the languages spoken by the present-day Tatars, belonging to various branches of the Turkic family of languages, esp Kazan Tatar
adjective
3.
of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tatars
Derived forms
Tatarian (tɑːˈtɛərɪən), Tartarian (Tarˈtarian) or Tataric (tɑːˈtærɪk) or Tartaric (Tarˈtaric)
adjective
Word origin
C14: from Old French Tartare, from Medieval Latin Tartarus (associated with Latin Tartarus the underworld), from Persian Tātār
Tatar in American English
(ˈtɑtər)
noun
1.
a member of any of the Mongolian and Turkic peoples that took part in the invasion of central and W Asia and E Europe in the Middle Ages
2.
a member of a Turkic people living in EC European Russia, the Crimea, and parts of Asia
3.
any of the Turkic languages of these peoples; esp., a language (Kazan Tatar) spoken around Kazan
adjective
4.
of Tatary or its peoples, languages, or cultures
: also Taˈtarian (tɑˈtɛriən), Taˈtaric
Word origin
Pers
Examples of 'Tatar' in a sentence
Tatar
And all that remained of the entire Crimean Tatar nation was still in exile, somewhere in Soviet Asia.