tadzhik

Other forms of tadzhik

plural

tadzhiks·

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 tadzhik

What does tadzhik mean?

tadzhik means "a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tadzhik?

tadzhik has 2 syllables and divides as tadz-hik under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tadzhik?

Close synonyms include Tajik, Tajikistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Tadzhikistan, Tadjik. 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 tadzhik a common word?

tadzhik 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.