English
Etymology
From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy.
Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/, /tæˈd͡ʒiːk/
- Rhymes: -iːk
Noun
Tajik (plural Tajiks)
- A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.
2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 48:“True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”
Translations
person
- Afrikaans: Tadjik, Tadjikistanner
- Albanian: taxhik m
- Arabic: طَاجِيكِيّ m (ṭājīkiyy), طَاجِيكِيَّة f (ṭājīkiyya)
- Armenian: տաջիկ (taǰik)
- Azerbaijani: tacik
- Belarusian: таджы́к m (tadžýk), таджы́чка f (tadžýčka)
- Bengali: তাজিক (tajik)
- Bulgarian: таджи́к m (tadžík)
- Catalan: tadjik m or f
- Chinese:
- Dungan: таҗик (tažik)
- Mandarin: 塔吉克人 (zh) (tǎjíkèrén)
- Crimean Tatar: tacik
- Czech: Tádžik (cs) m, Tádžička (cs) f
- Danish: tadsjiker c
- Dutch: Tadzjiek (nl) m, Tadzjiekse (nl) f
- Esperanto: taĝiko
- Estonian: tadžikk
- Finnish: tadžikki (fi)
- French: Tadjik (fr) m, Tadjike (fr) f
- Georgian: ტაჯიკი (ṭaǯiḳi)
- German: Tadschike (de) m, Tadschikin (de) f
- Hindi: ताजिक (hi) m (tājik)
- Hungarian: tádzsik (hu)
- Irish: Táidsíceastánach m
- Italian: tagiko m, tagika f
- Japanese: タジク人 (tajikujin)
- Kazakh: тәжік (täjık)
- Korean: 타지크 사람 (tajikeu saram), 타지크인 (tajikeu'in)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: تاجیک (tacîk)
- Northern Kurdish: tacik (ku)
- Kyrgyz: тажик (ky) (tajik)
- Latvian: tadžiks m, tadžikiete f
- Lithuanian: tadžikas (lt) m, tadžikė (lt) f
- Macedonian: Таџик m (Tadžik)
- Mongolian: тажик хүн (tažik xün)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tadsjiker m
- Nynorsk: tadsjikar (nn) m
- Ossetian: таджикаг (taǵikag)
- Ottoman Turkish: تاجیك (tâcik)
- Pashto: تاجک (ps) m (tāǰᶕk)
- Persian:
- Dari: تاجک
- Iranian Persian: تاجیک (fa) (tâjik)
- Polish: Tadżyk (pl) m, Tadżyjka (pl) f, Tadżyczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: tadjique (pt)
- Romanian: tadjic (ro) m, tadjică (ro) f
- Russian: таджи́к (ru) m (tadžík), таджи́чка (ru) f (tadžíčka)
- Sarikoli: Tujik, Tujiki
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Таџик m, Таџикиња f, Таџикистанац m, Таџикистанка f
- Roman: Tadžik (sh) m, Tadžikinja f, Tadžikistanac m, Tadžikistanka f
- Slovak: Tadžik m, Tadžička f
- Slovene: Tadžik m
- Spanish: tayiko (es) m
- Swedish: tadzjik (sv) c
- Tajik: тоҷик (tg) (tojik)
- Tatar: таҗик (tt) (tacik)
- Turkish: Tacik (tr), Tacikistanlı
- Turkmen: täjik
- Ukrainian: таджи́к (uk) m (tadžýk), таджи́чка f (tadžýčka)
- Urdu: تاجک m (tājik)
- Uyghur: تاجىك (tajik)
- Uzbek: tojik (uz)
- Vietnamese: người Tát-gích
- Xibe: ᡨᠠᡪᡞᡣ
ᠨᡞᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ (tajik niyalma)
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Proper noun
Tajik
- The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan.
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Adjective
Tajik (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.
Derived terms
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people or the Tajik language
Usage notes
Refers to ethnicity, not nationality. Compare Tajikistani (“inhabitant of nation of Tajikistan; pertaining to Tajikistan”).
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