Definition of Kizilbash
plural Kizilbash
or Kizilbashes
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
