Azerbaijani

noun

Azer·​bai·​ja·​ni ˌa-zər-ˌbī-ˈjä-nē 

ˌä-

plural Azerbaijanis also Azerbaijani

1

: a member of a Turkic-speaking people of Azerbaijan and northwest Iran

2

: the Turkic language of the Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijani adjective

Examples of Azerbaijani in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The addition of Azerbaijan to the Abraham Accords—an idea first published last December in Newsweek—has caught on in Israeli, U.S. and Azerbaijani circles. —Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

By 1994, Armenian forces had wrested control of Nagorno-Karabakh and some of the adjacent Azerbaijani territories, driving out locals. —Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025

Hours later, Azerbaijani officials landed in Aktau, Kazakhstan, the airport where the Embraer 190 had tried to make an emergency landing. —Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025

The Azerbaijani pomegranate, or nar, first caught my attention while visiting the South Caucasian nation in November 2024. —Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Persian āzarbāyjānī, from Āzarbāyjān Azerbaijan

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for Azerbaijani

• afghani
• fulani
• romani
• bonnie
• bonny
• brawny
• connie
• johnnie
• johnny
• mani
• rani
• scrawny