Kizilbash

noun

Kiz·il·bash | \ ¦kizəl¦bäsh\

plural Kizilbash or Kizilbashes

Definition of Kizilbash

1 : a Persianized Turk of a class devoted to business and professional pursuits in Afghanistan also : a member of a community of Turkish or mixed-race colonists in Asia Minor

2 : a community of Kurdish Turks in eastern Turkey who are Christians and whose women refuse to veil their faces

3 : a nomadic people in the plains around Ankara, Karahisar, and Tokat

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