Uzbek
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person from Uzbekistan or of Uzbek descent.
"Fashionable Uzbeks wear clothing made from the fabric, and suzanis have become popular with interior designers from the UK to Singapore, who use them as wall décor, bedding, or as the fabric for throw pillows."
- 2 the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek wordnet
- 3 a member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas wordnet
- 1 Of, from, or pertaining to Uzbekistan, the Uzbek people or the Uzbek language.
"Outside government, Uzbek and Islamic social mores – by no means always mutually compatible – have always exerted their own influences. One positive and very Uzbek influence are the Mahallas, mutual help communities of families, local businesses and committees which deal effectively with a wide range of local issues."
- 1 The language of Uzbekistan.
Example
More examples"My school has Uighur, Han, Kazakh, Hui, Mongol, Kirghiz, Xibo, Tajik, and Uzbek ethnicities, among others."
Etymology
From Russian узбек (uzbek), from Uzbek oʻzbek. Further etymology is uncertain; possibly from Turkic öz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [script needed] (βγ /beġ/, “master”); the latter from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰagás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás. The first element is often thought to be equivalent to English Oghuz.
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