Chagatai

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An extinct literary Turkic language used in Central Asia and Bashkortostan until the twentieth century.
• Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan and Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, after whom the Chagatai language and Chagatai people are named.

Noun

• An ethnic group of Uzbekistan.

Origin

• Named after the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate, itself named after Chagatai Khan, a son of Genghis Khan, from Middle Mongolian ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ.