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Meaning of Tajik in English

Tajik
adjective
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/tɑːˈdʒiːk/ us
/tɑːˈdʒiːk/
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belonging to or relating to Tajikistan:
The north of the country is dominated by Tajik and Uzbek minorities.
Ramin comes from a Tajik warrior family.
He was found on a fake Tajik passport.
The drugs are then taken across the Tajik border.
They flew in from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
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Tajik
noun [ C ]
uk
/tɑːˈdʒiːk/ us
/tɑːˈdʒiːk/
a person from Tajikistan:
Rabbani was an ethnic Tajik.
The alliance was a coalition of Uzbeks and Tajiks.
a Persian language spoken in Tajikistan and other parts of central Asia:
Iranian Persian, Tajik, and Dari are mutually intelligible.
As well as using Tajik and Uzbek as their native languages, most Bukharans also speak Russian.
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Translations of Tajik

in Chinese (Traditional)
塔吉克的, 塔吉克人…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
塔吉克的, 塔吉克人…
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in Spanish
tayiko, tayika…
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tajique…
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