zhuz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Kazakh жүз (jüz).

Noun

zhuz (plural zhuzes)

  1. Any of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kipchak Plain area that cover much of the contemporary Kazakhstan, and represent the main tribal division within the ethnic group of the Kazakhs.
    • Mansur Mirovalev (11 January 2022) “Can centuries-old clan rivalry explain the crisis in Kazakhstan?”, in aljazeera.com‎[1], Al Jazeera, retrieved 17 January 2022: “But the cornerstone of Kazakhstan’s post-Soviet wealth is the hydrocarbons drilled in the stomping ground of the Younger, or Minor Zhuz in the country’s west, next to the Caspian Sea, one of the biggest sources of untapped hydrocarbons on Earth.”

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