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Chagatay

Chagatay is the alternative form of Chagatai.

Meaning of Chagatai

Proper noun

Chagatai

  1. A male given name of historical usage, most famously borne by the Mongol ruler Chagatai Khan (1183–1242), second son of Genghis Khan and first khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate of Central Asia (divided after the 14th century).
  2. An extinct literary Turkic language used in Central Asia and Bashkortostan between the 15th and the 20th century.
  3. (collective) An ethnic group of Uzbekistan.
    Synonyms:
    Chagatai Tajiks

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Questions about Chagatay

What is Chagatay the alternative form of?
Chagatay is the alternative form of Chagatai.

Words near Chagatay in the dictionary

  1. chagasins
  2. Chagatai
  3. Chagatai Tajiks
  4. Chagataian
  5. Chagataic
  6. Chagatay
  7. chagempomba
  8. Chagford
  9. Chagga
  10. Chaghatai
  11. Chaghatay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chagatay (page history and authors); Chagatai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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