Qazaq

Originally an alternative transliteration of Russian каза́к (kazák), каза́х (kazáx); now from Kazakh qazaq (Latin spelling of қазақ).

Qazaq (countable and uncountable, plural Qazaqs)

1. Alternative spelling of Kazakh.

Qazaq (comparative more Qazaq, superlative most Qazaq)

1. Alternative spelling of Kazakh.
   • 1931, D[mitry] S[vyatopolk-]Mirsky, “Territorial Survey of the Empire”, in Russia: A Social History, London: The Cresset Press, published 1942 (2nd impression), →OCLC, chapter VI (The Petersburg Period (1698-1861)), page 187:

     It was chiefly to protect the mining districts from the Qazaq nomads that a fortified frontier running in a semi-circle from Orenburg to Omsk and thence up the Irtysh, thus cutting off the Urals and the Altai from the steppe, came into existence.

   • 2001, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, “Status, Strategies and Discourses of a Muslim ‘Clergy’ under a Christian Law: Polemics about the Collection of the Zakât in Late Imperial Russia”, in Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao, editors, Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia (Early Eighteenth to Late Twentieth Centuries) (Islamic Area Studies; 3), London: Kegan Paul International, →ISBN, part 1 (Community Building in the Russian Dār al-Ḥarb), page 59:

     In the spring of 1913 two Qazaq notables, Bay Muhammad Maykutov and Utash Jarasov, achieved the construction of the new mosque-and-madrasa complex in a modern Russian-style four-storey building.

   • 2020, Allen J. Frank, “The Kereys”, in Paolo Sartori, Danielle Ross, editors, Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550–1917, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Islamic Scholars among the Kereys of Northern Kazakhstan, 1680–1850), page 186:

     The fortified lines of the Siberian and Orenburg Cossacks largely conform to the modern boundary between Kazakhstan and Russia; the role of the Kereys in resisting its advancement, and defending what is seen as both Qazaq land and the realm of Islam, is clearly evident in these Kerey sources.