Tajiks

Tajiks are Central Asian Iranians, or East-Iranians. For Persians in modern Iran, see Persian people. For the Iranian-speaking people of China see Tajiks in China. Tājīk (; UniPers: Tâjik; Tajik: ) is a term generally applied to Iranian-speaking peoples living to the east and northeast of modern Iran. Among the Iranian languages that linguists have identified as being spoken by Tajiks are "Western Farsi", "Tajiki" and "Shughni". The traditional Tajik homelands are in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, western China, and Chitral.
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Noun
1. a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
(synonym) Tadzhik
(hypernym) Asian, Asiatic
(member-holonym) Tajikistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Tadzhikistan, Tadzhik, Tadjik, Tajik
2. a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
(synonym) Tajikistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Tadzhikistan, Tadzhik, Tadjik
(hypernym) Asian country, Asian nation
(member-holonym) Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS
(part-holonym) Asia
(member-meronym) Tajik, Tadzhik
(part-meronym) Dushanbe, Dusanbe, Dyushambe, Stalinabad, capital of Tajikistan
3. an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
(synonym) Tadzhik
(hypernym) ethnic group, ethnos
4. the Iranian language of the Tajik people that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan
(synonym) Tajiki, Tadzhik
(hypernym) Iranian, Iranian language