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Definition of Tatar

1. Noun. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.

2. Noun. A member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups).

3. Noun. The Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains.

Definition of Tatar

1. Noun. An agglutinative language belonging to the Uralian group of the Northwestern branch of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. ¹

2. Noun. A person belonging to one of several Turkic, '''Tatar'''-speaking ethnic groups in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tatar

1. a ferocious person [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tatar

Tasmanian devil Tasmanian devils Tasmanian tiger Tasmanian wolf Tasmanian wolves Tasmanians Taswegian Taswegians Tat Tat protein

Tata Tatabánya Tatahumara Tatar Tatarian Tatarians Tatars Tatarstan Tatary Tataupa tinamou

Tataupa tinamous Tate Tater Tots Tati Tatiana Tatler Tatra Tattersall

Literary usage of Tatar

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

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"All Europe trembled at the horrors of the tatar invasion; the emperor ... INFLUENCES OF tatar DOMINATION The domination of the tatars over Russia is ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"All Europe trembled at the horrors of the tatar invasion; the emperor ... INFLUENCES OF tatar DOMINATION The domination of the tatars over Russia is ..."

3. The Crimean Tatars by Alan W. Fisher (1978)
"But such acts did little to alleviate the growing impoverishment of the traditional tatar elite. Despite these difficulties, some of the tatar ..."

4. Travels in Siberia by S. S. Hill (1854)
"After this, we passed through another tatar village called ... We noticed in these, as well as in several other tatar Plages, very frequent instances of ..."

5. Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902 by Sven Anders Hedin, Erik Wilhelm Dahlgren, Axel Lagrelius, Nils Gustaf Ekholm, Karl Gustaf Olsson, Wilhelm Leche, Helge Mattias Bäckström, Harald Johansson (1904)
"Kaj bulla, tatar from Orenburg, inhabitant of ... 1885 13. Baki Kan, tatar of Baku. 1885 13. tatar ... tatar from Kasan, inhabitant of ..."

6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Those of the tatar city are 40 feet high. 02 feet thick at the base, ... of which are in the tatar city (3 in the south Avail, communicating with the ..."

7. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1902)
"The dispersive influence of the tatar raids had the effect of creating centers in ... The conditions of life under the tatar sway were such, that any one, ..."

8. A Survey of Russian Literature: With Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1902)
"The dispersive influence of the tatar raids had the effect of creating centers in ... The conditions of life under the tatar sway were such, that any one, ..."

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