Definition of Tadjik

1. Noun. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet.


Definition of Tadjik

1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Tajik) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tadjik

Tacitism
Tacitus
Tacoma
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Taconite
Tactual Performance Test
Tacuba
Taczanowski's tinamou
Taczanowski's tinamous
Tad
Tadarida
Tadarida brasiliensis
Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko
Tadirida femorosacca
Tadjik (current term)
Tadley
Tadoma
Tadorna
Tadzhik
Tadzhikistan
Tadzhiks
Taegu
Taenia africana
Taenia armata
Taenia demerariensis
Taenia dentata
Taenia equina
Taenia hominis

Literary usage of Tadjik

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Turkistan, notes of a journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler (1876)
"Those near Katta-kurgan speak Tadjik and Turki; the rest speak a debased and corrupted Arabic. With regard to them there are two traditions—one that they ..."

2. The Emir of Bokhara and His Country: Journeys and Studies in Bokhara (with a by Ole Olufsen (1911)
"They keep up the old tribal division; the tribes are said to be 28, according to some authors 32, in Bokhara. In contrast with the Tadjik the ..."

3. Siamese Studies by Gustaaf Schlegel (1901)
"This makes that the Pien-i-tien places both Tadjik and Sumatra among the countries of the West, and gives as synonyms of Tadjik: ..."

4. Sketches of Central Asia: Additional Chapters on My Travels, Adventures, and by Ármin Vámbéry (1868)
"As regards the appellation Tadjik, I have always found that those concerning ... By the word Tadjik, the Tartar population of Turkestan understand a man ..."

5. Translations from the Chinese and Armenian: With Notes and Illustrations by Yung-lun Yüan, Zhuhong, Vahram, Oriental Translation Fund (1831)
"Our author has here the word Tadjik. a name by which he and the other Armenian historians of the middle ages promiscuously call the native Persians, ..."

6. Translations from the Chinese and Armenian: With Notes and Illustrations by Yung-lun Yüan, Zhuhong, Vahram, Oriental Translation Fund (1831)
"Our author has here the word Tadjik, a name by which he and the other Armenian historians of the middle ages promiscuously call the native Persians, ..."

7. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904: Prehistoric Civilizations of by Raphael Pumpelly (1908)
"The last kibitka is passed below lori, above which the type strengthens into a pure Tadjik; and, as my Tadjik caravan men testified, Fig. 474. ..."

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