oʻzbek

Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic ўзбек (oʻzbek)
Latin oʻzbek
Perso-Arabic

Etymology

Of medieval Turkic origin, possibly named for Öz Beg Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde, whose name may have been adopted by Turkic tribes as an ethnonym. The name is from öz (self) + beg (lord) (see modern Turkish bey).[1] More at Uzbeks.

Noun

oʻzbek (plural oʻzbeklar)

  1. Uzbek (person)

Declension

* Note: The type of possessive is not specified.

Derived terms

References

  1. Uzbek”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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