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Kazakhize

Kazakhize verb: to make Kazakh.

Verb

Kazakhize (third-person singular simple present Kazakhizes, present participle Kazakhizing, simple past and past participle Kazakhized)

  1. to make Kazakh.
    • By moving the capital from Almaty, which is a thoroughly Russianized city, the government wants to Kazakhize the political center of the country.1999, James Alt, Margaret Levi, Elinor Ostrom, Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science, Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 286
    • This paper seeks to argue that despite early impulses to Kazakhize the state, subsequently there has been realization that state-building can dialectically combine both the processes of nation-building within Kazakhstan and integration of non-Kazakhs in the new states by creating equal stakes for...2001, Contemporary Central Asia

Forms of Kazakhize

third-person singular presentKazakhizes
present participleKazakhizing
past participleKazakhized
pastKazakhized

Origin of Kazakhize

From Kazakh + -ize.

Words formed from Kazakhize

Questions about Kazakhize

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

Words near Kazakhize in the dictionary

  1. Kazakhify
  2. Kazakhifying
  3. Kazakhism
  4. Kazakhisms
  5. Kazakhization
  6. Kazakhize
  7. Kazakhized
  8. Kazakhizes
  9. Kazakhizing
  10. Kazakhness
  11. Kazakhs

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