Tajik
Americannoun
plural
Tajiks,plural
Tajik-
a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
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Also Tajiki the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
noun
Example Sentences
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Tajik and Kyrgyz athletes for years would not even congratulate each other at competitions, as their countries were locked in a long border dispute.
From Barron's
His supporters credit him with reconciling the country reviving Tajik culture after the civil war and decades of Soviet rule.
From Barron's
Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Saturday that "we have started serious investigations into" the recent "incidents" on Tajik soil.
From Barron's
Uzbek and Tajik men scrambled to finish construction on new stores, restaurants, and apartment buildings before winter set in.
From Salon
Earlier this year I even recommended it to a Tajik high official in Dushanbe as an important forthcoming work that might shed valuable new light on Afghanistan.
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