KAZAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kazak mean? 

• KAZAK (noun)
  The noun KAZAK has 3 senses:

1. a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)

2. a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991

3. the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak

  Familiarity information: KAZAK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAZAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Kazak; Kazakh

Hypernyms ("Kazak" is a kind of...):

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kazak; Kazakh; Kazakhstan; Kazakstan; Republic of Kazakhstan

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Kazak"):

Alma-Ata; Almaty (the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998)

Meronyms (members of "Kazak"):

Kazakhstani (a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan)

Holonyms ("Kazak" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Holonyms ("Kazak" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Turkic language spoken by the Kazak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Kazak; Kazakh

Hypernyms ("Kazak" is a kind of...):

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)