Tajik

Meanings

Noun

• A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.

Proper Noun

• The Persian dialect spoken in Tajikistan.

Adjective

• Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.

Origin

• From Persian تاجیک ("non-Turk (of Central Asia)") (akin to تازی, تازیک), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' ("Arab"), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ ("name of an Arab clan").
• Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ ("crown") (see Arabic تَاج, from Persian تاج ("crown")), but this is false.