English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), compound of tosh (“stone”) + Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city”) (compare Turkish kent), the latter borrowed from Sogdian [Term?] (/kand/, “city”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/, /ˌtæʃˈkɛnt/
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Proper noun
Tashkent
- The capital city of Uzbekistan.
- Synonym: (former name) Chach
1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission[1], →OCLC, →OL, page 103:The Uzbek opera house and the Uzbek dramatic theater, both in Tashkent, are of recent origin and arose under Soviet influence.
Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations
capital of Uzbekistan
- Albanian: Tashkent m, Tashkenti m (definite)
- Amharic: ታሽኬንት (taškent)
- Arabic: طَشْقَنْد f (ṭašqand), تَشْكَنْدْ f (taškand), طَشْكَنْد f (ṭaškand), طَاشْكَنْدْ f (ṭāškand)
- Armenian: Տաշքենդ (Taškʻend)
- Azerbaijani: Daşkənd (az)
- Cyrillic: Дашкәнд
- Bashkir: Ташкент (Taşkent)
- Belarusian: Ташке́нт m (Taškjént)
- Bengali: তাশখন্দ (bn) (taśokhondo)
- Bulgarian: Ташке́нт m (Tašként)
- Burmese: တရှကင့်မြို့ (ta.hra.kang.mrui.)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 塔什干 (taap3 sap6 gon1)
- Mandarin: 塔什干 (zh) (Tǎshígān)
- Czech: Taškent (cs) m
- Danish: Tasjkent n
- Dutch: Tasjkent n
- Esperanto: Taŝkento (eo)
- Estonian: Toshkent (et), Taškent
- Finnish: Taškent (fi)
- French: Tachkent (fr)
- Georgian: ტაშკენტი (ka) (ṭašḳenṭi)
- German: Taschkent (de) n
- Greek: Τασκένδη (el) (Taskéndi)
- Ancient: Τσατσηνή (Tsatsēnḗ)
- Hebrew: טַשְׁקֶנְט f (tashkent)
- Hindi: ताशकंद m (tāśkand), ताशकेंत m (tāśkẽt), ताशक़ंद m (tāśqand)
- Hungarian: Taskent (hu)
- Icelandic: Taskent
- Indonesian: Tashkent
- Irish: Taiscint f, Tashkent
- Italian: Tashkent
- Japanese: タシケント (ja) (Tashikento)
- Kazakh: Ташкент (Taşkent)
- Khmer: តាស្កិន (km) (taaskən)
- Korean: 타슈켄트 (ko) (Tasyukenteu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Taşkent (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Ташкен (ky) (Taşken)
- Lao: ຕັສເກັນ (tas ken)
- Latin: Taskentum n
- Latvian: Taškenta f
- Lithuanian: Taškentas m
- Macedonian: Ташкент m (Taškent)
- Malay: Tashkent
- Manchu: ᡨᠠᡧᡳᡤᠠᠨ (tašigan), ᡨᠠᠰᡳᡤᠠᠨ (tasigan)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Ташкент (Taškent)
- Navajo: Tʼashkʼen
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Tasjkent
- Nynorsk: Tasjkent
- Pashto: تاشکند m (tāškand)
- Persian: تاشکند (tâškand), تاشکنت (tâškant), چاچ (fa) (čâč), شاش (fa) (šâš)
- Polish: Taszkent (pl) m
- Portuguese: Tashkent (pt) f, Tasquente f
- Romanian: Tașkent
- Russian: Ташке́нт (ru) m (Tašként)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Та̀шкент m
- Roman: Tàškent (sh) m
- Sinhalese: ටෂ්කන්ට් (ṭaṣkanṭ)
- Slovak: Taškent (sk) m
- Slovene: Taškent m
- Swedish: Tasjkent (sv) n
- Tajik: Тошканд (tg) (Toškand)
- Tamil: தாஷ்கந்து (tāṣkantu)
- Tatar: Ташкәнт (Taşkänt)
- Thai: ทาชเคนต์ (táach-kén)
- Tibetan: ཐ་ཧྲི་ཀན (tha hri kan)
- Turkish: Taşkent (tr)
- Turkmen: Daşkent
- Cyrillic: Дашкент
- Ukrainian: Ташке́нт (uk) m (Tašként)
- Urdu: تاشقند m (tāśqand)
- Uyghur: تاشكەنت (tashkent)
- Uzbek: Toshkent
- Cyrillic: Тошкент (Toshkent)
- Vietnamese: Ta-xken
- Written Oirat: ᡐᠠᠱᡍᡄᠨ (tašken)
- Yiddish: טאַשקענט n (tashkent)
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Tashkent f
- Tashkent (the capital city of Uzbekistan)