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Kazakh

ka·zakh

UK/kəˈzak/ US/kəˈzɑːk/ uncommon

noun

1.

a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)

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a landlocked republic south of Russia and 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

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3.

the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak people

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Origin

From Russian каза́х (kazáx), from Kazakh қазақ (qazaq). Cognate with Cossack, ultimately from Turkic languages.

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