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Hazaras

Hazaras is the plural of Hazara.

Meaning of Hazara

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

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Proper noun

Hazaras

  1. An ethnic group of Afghanistan, originating from Turkic, Mongolic and Persian stock.

Questions about Hazaras

What does Hazaras mean?
Hazaras means an ethnic group of Afghanistan, originating from Turkic, Mongolic and Persian stock.
What is Hazaras the plural of?
Hazaras is the plural of Hazara.
What part of speech is Hazaras?
Hazaras is a proper noun.

Words near Hazaras in the dictionary

  1. Hazara
  2. Hazara Division
  3. Hazara Pakistan
  4. Hazaragi
  5. Hazarajat
  6. Hazaras
  7. hazard
  8. hazard a guess
  9. hazard creep
  10. hazard light
  11. hazard lights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hazaras (page history and authors); 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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