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Hazara

Hazara noun: a region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.

Noun

Hazara (plural Hazaras or Hazara)

  1. (Pakistan) A region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.
  2. A member of the Persian-speaking, predominantly Twelver Shia ethnic group native to Hazarajat (a region in central Afghanistan).
    • The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 169

Adjective

Hazara (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Hazaras.
    • Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150

Forms of Hazara

pluralHazaras
pluralHazara
alternative formHuzara

Origin of Hazara

From Classical Persian هَزَارَه (hazāra).

Phrases with Hazara

Questions about Hazara

What does Hazara mean?
Hazara means a region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.
What part of speech is Hazara?
Hazara can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Hazara?
The plural of Hazara is Hazaras.

Words near Hazara in the dictionary

  1. haz-mats
  2. hazan
  3. hazanic
  4. hazanim
  5. hazans
  6. Hazara
  7. Hazara Division
  8. Hazara Pakistan
  9. Hazaragi
  10. Hazarajat
  11. Hazaras

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hazara (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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