Kazakh

See also: kazakh

English

Etymology 1

From Russian каза́х (kazáx), from Kazakh қазақ (qazaq). Cognate with Cossack, ultimately from Turkic languages.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈzak/, /kəˈzɑːk/, /ˈkazak/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈzɑk/, /kəˈzæk/, /ˈkæzæk/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːk

Noun

Kazakh (countable and uncountable, plural Kazakhs)

  1. (countable) A person from Kazakhstan or of that descent.
    Synonym: Kazakhstani
  2. (uncountable) The national language of Kazakhstan.
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Adjective

Kazakh (comparative more Kazakh, superlative most Kazakh)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Kazakhstan, the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language.
    Synonym: Kazakhstani
    • 2010, Michael Fergus, Vitaliy Krotov, “Other cities”, in Kazakhstan: The Business Traveller’s Handbook (Gorilla Guides: Travel Handbooks for the Business Jungle), Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Travel, →ISBN, chapter 9 (Other Major Cities), page 159:
      Over 70% of the city population is reckoned to be Kazakh or Uzbek and only 15% Russian. Being much more Kazakh than Russian certainly gives Shymkent a less disciplined feel about it, and this has its good sides to it and its bad sides.
    • 2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy[1], archived from the original on 3 August 2023:
      At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU.
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Etymology 2

From Russian Каза́х (Kazáx).

Proper noun

Kazakh

  1. Alternative form of Gazakh.

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “казак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress