Kazakh (redirected from Kazaks)

Ka·zakh  (käzäk, k-zäk)

n. pl. Kazakhs or Kazakh

1. A member of a pastoral Muslim people inhabiting Kazakhstan and parts of Xinjiang Uygur in China.

2. The Turkic language of this people.

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[Russian kazakh, from Kazakh qazaq, from Old Turkic *qazghaq, a profiteer, from qazqhanmaq, to acquire, from qazmaq, to dig out.]

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Kazakh, Kazak [kəˈzɑːk kɑː-]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -zakhs, -zaks a member of a traditionally Muslim Mongoloid people of Kazakhstan

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

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Noun	1.	Kazakh - a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan) Kazak Turki - any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language
	2.	Kazakh - a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991 Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazak CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 Alma-Ata, Almaty - the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998 Asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations Kazakhstani - a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan
	3.	Kazakh - the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak Kazak Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar, Turki - a subfamily of Altaic languages