You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.


Tajik

Translation
Tajik
/tah jik", -jeek"/; Russ. /tu jik"/, n., pl. Tajiks, (esp. collectively) Tajik for 1.
1. a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
2. Also, Tajiki /tah"ji kee, tah jee"-/. the Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks, closely related to Persian but in Tadzhikistan written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Also, Tadjik, Tadzhik.

* * *

▪ people
also spelled  Tadzhik 

      the original Iranian population of Afghanistan and Turkistan. The Tajiks constitute almost four-fifths of the population of Tajikistan. In the early 21st century there were more than 5,200,000 Tajiks in Tajikistan and more than 1,000,000 in Uzbekistan. There were about 5,000,000 in Afghanistan, where they constituted about one-fifth of the population. Another 40,000 lived in the Uygur Autonomous Region (Sinkiang, Uygur Autonomous Region of) of Xinjiang in China.

      The name Tajik refers to the traditionally sedentary people who speak a form of Persian called Tajik in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and who speak the modern Persian language in Afghanistan.

      The Tajiks were the heirs and transmitters of the Central Asian sedentary culture that diffused in prehistoric times from the Iranian plateau into an area extending roughly from the Caspian Sea to the borders of China. They built villages of flat-roofed mud or stone houses and cultivated irrigated fields of wheat, barley, and millet. Their gardens were famous for melons and a variety of fruits. Their crafts were highly developed, and their towns along the caravan routes linking Persia, China, and India were centres of trade. Turks subsequently migrated westward into the area inhabited by the Tajiks. The latter became Turkicized in their culture, though many retained their Iranian language.

      Most Tajiks are Sunni Muslims, but a few in remote mountain areas are Shīʿite.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Tajik — may refer to:* Tajiks, an ethnic group living in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and western China. * Tajik Assata Anwar Bahoul, the birth name of Black nationalist activist Taj Anwar. * Tajik language, the official language… …   Wikipedia

  • tajik — 1> таджик; таджичка Ex: the Tajik(s) собир. таджики 2> таджикский язык …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

  • Tajik — Dieser Artikel oder Abschnitt ist nicht hinreichend mit Belegen (Literatur, Webseiten oder Einzelnachweisen) versehen. Die fraglichen Angaben werden daher möglicherweise demnächst gelöscht. Hilf Wikipedia, indem du die Angaben recherchierst und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Tajik — 1. noun a) A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent. b) The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan. 2. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of P …   Wiktionary

  • Tajik — ˈtɑ:dʒɪk 1. прил. таджикский 2. сущ. 1) таджик; таджичка 2) таджикский язык таджик; таджичка the *(s) (собирательнле) таджики таджикский язык …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

  • Tajik — or Tadzhik noun Date: 1815 1. a member of a Persian speaking ethnic group living in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and adjacent areas of central Asia 2. the form of Persian spoken by the Tajiks …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Tajik — 1) Общая лексика: таджик, таджикский, таджикский язык, таджичка 2) Лингвистика: таджикский (язык) 3) МИД: таджикистанский …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

  • Tajik — Abbreviation: TG, TGK …   Универсальный русско-английский словарь

  • Tajik — таджикский, таджикистанский …   Терминологический словарь МИД России

  • Tajik — [ tɑːʤɪk] таджикский таджик; таджичка таджикский язык …   Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь

Фильмы

  • Inspiration., 1976 — The film is about a concent for the delegates of the XXV Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • Heirs., 1978 — About the XVIII Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union. A review film dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union.
  • At the Exhibition "60 Years of the Soviet Cinema"., 1980 — A film about the Exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Soviet cinema, which took place at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow in summer 1979.