kazak

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsKazakh

   BroaderTurki
2. 2.

   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

   SynonymsKazakhstanRepublic of KazakhstanKazakstanKazakh

   BroaderAsian country

   Part ofAsiaCommonwealth of Independent States

   PartsAlmaty
3. 3.

   the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak

   SynonymsKazakh

   BroaderTurki

Other forms of kazak

plural

kazaks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kazak

What does kazak mean?

kazak means "a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kazak?

kazak has 2 syllables: ka-zak. The stress falls on "ka".

What is another word for kazak?

Close synonyms include Kazakh, Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazakh. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kazak a common word?

kazak is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.