uzbekistan
/ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.
Example Sentences
- "Several officers are going to train border police in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which border Afghanistan, and in several other countries."
- "She wore a coat made of old cloth from Uzbekistan called a suzani, which was faded black with embroidered red circles and yellow and white zigzags."
- "In Uzbekistan, forced sterilizations apparently began in 2004 and became official state policy in 2009."
Etymology
From Russian Узбекистан (Uzbekistan), itself from Classical Persian اُزْبَکِسْتَان (uzbakistān). Ultimately uncertain; possibly from Turkic uz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [Term?] (/bek/, “master”) (for the second element, see Turkish bey). The suffix is from Classical Persian ـِستان (istān, “place of”). By surface analysis, Uzbek + -i- + -stan.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Узбекистан, اُزْبَکِسْتَان, -, ـِستان
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑn/
- British English: /ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑːn/