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Tadzhik

Tadzhik is the obsolete spelling of Tajik.

Meaning of Tajik

Noun

Tajik (plural Tajiks)

  1. A member of the Persian-speaking people living mainly in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
    • “True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 48

See all 5 meanings of Tajik

Forms of Tadzhik

pluralTadzhiks

Origin of Tadzhik

Borrowed from Russian таджи́к (tadžík), from Classical Persian تَاجِیک (tājīk).

Questions about Tadzhik

What is Tadzhik the obsolete spelling of?
Tadzhik is the obsolete spelling of Tajik.

Words near Tadzhik in the dictionary

  1. tadpolism
  2. tads
  3. Tadworth
  4. Tadych
  5. Tadyches
  6. Tadzhik
  7. Tadzhikistan
  8. Tadzhiks
  9. TAE
  10. Tae Bo
  11. tae kwon do

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tadzhik (page history and authors); Tajik (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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