Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tajik

/ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables: tajik
IPA: /ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/

16

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the Persian-speaking people living mainly in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Tajiks.

adj

Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan.

adj

Of or relating to Tajiki Persian.

name

The Persian dialect spoken by Tajiks in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Example Sentences

"“True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”"
"A yurt houses a Tajik family along the Karakal Lake."

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.

Origin

Source language: Middle Persian

Word Breakdown

Root: تاجیک, tʾcyk', طَيِّئ

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/

Inflected Forms

Tajiks (plural) Tadjik (alternative) Tadzhik (alternative) Taujik (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

Tajikness

Phrases

Tajik Persian Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County Wiktionary’s coverage of Tajik terms

Frequently Paired Words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Tajik terms

Synonyms

Tajiki Tajikistani Tajiki Persian Tajik Persian tadzhik tajik language tadzhik language tajiki language

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce tajik?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɑːd͡ʒɪk/.
What does tajik mean?: A member of the Persian-speaking people living mainly in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
Where does tajik come from?: It is traced to Middle Persian.

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