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Kazakhify

Kazakhify verb: to make Kazakh.

Verb

Kazakhify (third-person singular simple present Kazakhifies, present participle Kazakhifying, simple past and past participle Kazakhified)

  1. to make Kazakh.
    • One scholar identifies personnel decisions in particular as the main tool used to Kazakhify the state:2011, Michele E. Commercio, Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The Transformative Power of Informal Networks, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 165
    • Kazakhifying city names (by restoring their Kazakh names or creating new Kazakh names from scratch) helps to territorialize the nation and therefore legitimize its borders.2014, Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of Kazakhify

third-person singular presentKazakhifies
present participleKazakhifying
past participleKazakhified
pastKazakhified

Origin of Kazakhify

From Kazakh + -ify.

Questions about Kazakhify

What does Kazakhify mean?
Kazakhify means to make Kazakh.
What part of speech is Kazakhify?
Kazakhify is a verb.
What is the past tense of Kazakhify?
The past tense of Kazakhify is Kazakhified.

Words near Kazakhify in the dictionary

  1. Kazakh SSR
  2. Kazakhgate
  3. Kazakhification
  4. Kazakhified
  5. Kazakhifies
  6. Kazakhify
  7. Kazakhifying
  8. Kazakhism
  9. Kazakhisms
  10. Kazakhization
  11. Kazakhize

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