Lexic.us

Definition of Kazakh

1. Noun. A Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).

2. Noun. A landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991.

3. Noun. The Turkic language spoken by the Kazak.

Definition of Kazakh

1. Noun. A person from Kazakhstan or of Kazakh descent. ¹

2. Proper noun. The national language of Kazakhstan. ¹

3. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Kazakhstan, the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kazakh

Kayasthi Kayathi Kaycee Kaycie Kayden Kaye Kayla Kaylee Kayleigh Kayley

Kaylie Kayser Kayser-Fleischer ring Kayunga Kazak Kazakh Kazakh SSR Kazakhs Kazakhstan Kazakhstani

Kazakhstani monetary unit Kazakhstanis Kazakstan Kazan Kazanjian Kazanjian's operation Kazbek Kazi Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Literary usage of Kazakh

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

1. The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe by Michael Mandelbaum (2000)
"3 In fact, the kazakh Statistics Agency claims that the 1999 national census shows ... n3 His clever evasion does not necessarily rule out future kazakh ..."

2. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"The event this ceremony was to mark, commemorated by an as-yet-unconstructed monument, was the meeting in 1726 on that site of three local kazakh elders, ..."

3. Detained in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious Prisoners by Robin Munro, Mickey Spiegel, Asia Watch Committee (U.S.) (1994)
"... male, 62, ethnically kazakh, higher-middle school education, a full-time author employed in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region's Writers Federation. ..."

4. Human Rights Watch World Report, 2003: Events of 2002 (November 2001 by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch Staff (2003)
"A US federal judge ruled on September 9 that the kazakh government could not prevent a federal grand jury from reviewing some three hundred thousand pages ..."

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