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KAZAKH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kazakh mean?
• KAZAKH (noun)
The noun KAZAKH 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: KAZAKH used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("Kazakh" 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 "Kazakh"):
Alma-Ata; Almaty (the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998)
Meronyms (members of "Kazakh"):
Kazakhstani (a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan)
Holonyms ("Kazakh" 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 ("Kazakh" 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 ("Kazakh" is a kind of...):
Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)
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