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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tadzhik is a noun meaning "a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tadzhik come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.