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Definition of Tadjik
1. Noun. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet.
Group relationships: Cis, Commonwealth Of Independent States
Generic synonyms: Asian Country, Asian Nation
Terms within: Capital Of Tajikistan, Dusanbe, Dushanbe, Dyushambe, Stalinabad, Communism Peak, Mount Communism, Mount Garmo, Stalin Peak, Pamir Mountains, The Pamirs
Group relationships: Asia
Member holonyms: Tadzhik, Tajik
Definition of Tadjik
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Tajik) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tadjik
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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