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Tajikistan
//təˈdʒiːkɪˌstɑːn// name
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Proper Noun
- 1 A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Tajikistan. Capital: Dushanbe.
"Several officers are going to train border police in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which border Afghanistan, and in several other countries."
Etymology
From Classical Persian تَاجِیکِسْتَان (tājīkistān) (from which Tajik Тоҷикистон (Tojikiston)). By surface analysis, Tajik + -i- + -stan.
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