TAJIK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tajik mean? 

• TAJIK (noun)
  The noun TAJIK has 4 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

2. a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet

3. an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

4. the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan

  Familiarity information: TAJIK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAJIK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Tadzhik; Tajik

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

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

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

Republic of Tajikistan; Tadjik; Tadzhik; Tadzhikistan; Tajik; Tajikistan (a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Tajikistan; Tadjik; Tadzhik; Tadzhikistan; Tajik; Tajikistan

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Tajik"):

capital of Tajikistan; Dusanbe; Dushanbe; Dyushambe; Stalinabad (the capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991)

Communism Peak; Mount Communism; Mount Garmo; Stalin Peak (the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (24,590 feet high))

Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)

Meronyms (members of "Tajik"):

Tadzhik; Tajik (a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China)

Holonyms ("Tajik" 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 ("Tajik" 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:

An ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Tadzhik; Tajik

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

ethnic group; ethnos (people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Tadzhik; Tajik; Tajiki

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

Iranian; Iranian language (the modern Persian language spoken in Iran)