tajik

Other forms of tajik

plural

tajiks·

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 tajik

What does tajik mean?

tajik 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 tajik?

tajik has 2 syllables: ta-jik. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˈtɑdʒɪk/.

What is another word for tajik?

Close synonyms include Tadzhik, Tajikistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Tadzhikistan, Tadzhik. 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 tajik a common word?

tajik 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.