Tajik

• Tadzhik

From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy

Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/, /tæˈd͡ʒiːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk

Tajik (plural Tajiks)

1. A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 48:

     “True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”

Tajik

1. The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tajik terms
• Appendix:Tajik Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Tajik
• Wikipedia article on the Tajiki-Persian language

• ISO 639-1 code tg, ISO 639-3 code tgk (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Tajik, tgk ⁠

Tajik (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.

Refers to ethnicity, not nationality. Compare Tajikistani (“inhabitant of nation of Tajikistan; pertaining to Tajikistan”).

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